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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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