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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Proud
Identify
American
Strongly
Heritage
Italian
Novels
Several
Surface
Novel
Surfaces

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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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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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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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 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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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