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

Wally Lamb

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

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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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