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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

Wally Lamb

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

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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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 thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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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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