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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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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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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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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
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When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
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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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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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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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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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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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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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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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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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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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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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