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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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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