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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
Roundness
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Things
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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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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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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