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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
Expect
Needs
Places

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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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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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 won't read novels while writing novels.
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