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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
Blood

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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 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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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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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 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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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