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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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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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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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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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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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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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