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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 comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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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 work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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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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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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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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