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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
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New York City
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
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I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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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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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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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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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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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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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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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.
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