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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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 stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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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 wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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 grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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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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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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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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