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I won't read novels while writing novels.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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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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 like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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 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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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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