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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

Alice Hoffman

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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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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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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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The best way to die is when your living
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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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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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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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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
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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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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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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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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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