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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
Several
Surface
Novel
Surfaces
Proud
Identify
American
Strongly
Heritage
Italian
Novels

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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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