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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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 thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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 need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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 cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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