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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
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
Alice Hoffman
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.
Alice Hoffman
It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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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.
Alice Hoffman
I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
Alice Hoffman
Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope in their opinion, dirt could wait.
Alice Hoffman
I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
Alice Hoffman
It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
Alice Hoffman
I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
Alice Hoffman
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?
Alice Hoffman
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
Alice Hoffman
I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
Alice Hoffman
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
Alice Hoffman
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.
Alice Hoffman
Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
Alice Hoffman
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.
Alice Hoffman
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
Alice Hoffman
The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
Alice Hoffman
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
Alice Hoffman
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
Alice Hoffman
