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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
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Norwich
Connecticut
Polo
Bowling
Eastern
Western
Different
Connecticut

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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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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 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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