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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Keep
Stories
Women
Best
Things
Never
Secrets
Men
Secret
Tell

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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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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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The best way to die is when your living
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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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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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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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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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
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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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