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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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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
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Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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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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Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
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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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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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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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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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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. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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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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