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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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 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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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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 seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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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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