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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
American
Strongly
Heritage
Italian
Novels
Several
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Novel
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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