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Connecticut is in my blood.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
Connecticut
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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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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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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