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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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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