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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
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Norwich
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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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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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 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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