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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Kids
Belong
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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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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 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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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