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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Lying
Weave
Business
Network
Writing
Explore
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Truths
Thinking
Deeper
Lies
Fiction
Strange

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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 love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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