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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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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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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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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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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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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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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