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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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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
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New York City
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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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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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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