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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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