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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New York City
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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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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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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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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
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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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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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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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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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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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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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