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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Appointments
Everyday
Computer
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Ideas
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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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 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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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