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

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Tell
Keep
Stories
Women
Best
Things
Never
Secrets
Men
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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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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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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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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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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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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 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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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
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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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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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