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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Norwich

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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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 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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Connecticut is in my 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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