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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
Kids
Belong
Needed

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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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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 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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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