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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Belong
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Kids

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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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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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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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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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