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Alice Hoffman Inspirational Quotes (226)

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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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