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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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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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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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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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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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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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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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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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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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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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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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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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