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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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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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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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