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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Lost
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Need
Sometimes
Needs
Expect
Places
Characters
Lead

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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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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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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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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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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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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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