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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
Writing
Explore
Think
Truths
Thinking
Deeper
Lies
Fiction
Strange
Lying
Weave
Business
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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