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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
Weren
True
Stories
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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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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When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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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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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
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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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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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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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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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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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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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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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