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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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