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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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 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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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