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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
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New York City
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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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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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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