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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
Heritage
Italian
Novels
Several
Surface
Novel
Surfaces
Proud
Identify
American
Strongly

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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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 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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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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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