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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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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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 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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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