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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Connecticut
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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 work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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