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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Alice Hoffman

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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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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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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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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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