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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
Loss
Write
Else
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Love

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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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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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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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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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Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
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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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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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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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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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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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