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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
American
Strongly
Heritage
Italian
Novels
Several
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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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 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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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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 try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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