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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Fiction
Opportunity
Write
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Life
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Beyond

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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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