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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
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Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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 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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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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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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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