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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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 the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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 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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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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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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