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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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