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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
Connecticut
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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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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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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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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 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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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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