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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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New York City
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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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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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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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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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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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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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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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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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