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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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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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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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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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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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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 have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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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 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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