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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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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 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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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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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 work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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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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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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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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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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