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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Roundness
Exists
Evidence
Things

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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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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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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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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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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 love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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