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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Connecticut
Polo
Bowling
Eastern
Western
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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 am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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