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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.
Wally Lamb
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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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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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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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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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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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