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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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New York City
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
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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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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 even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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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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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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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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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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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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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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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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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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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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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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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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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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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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