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What else is there to write about than love and loss?

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Writing
Love
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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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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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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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 never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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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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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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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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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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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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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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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
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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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