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They weren't true stories they were better than that.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
True
Stories
Better
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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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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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
Alice Hoffman