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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
Novels
Several
Surface
Novel
Surfaces
Proud
Identify
American
Strongly
Heritage
Italian

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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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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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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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