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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.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Feels
Bones
Writing
Straight
World
Cutting
Emotional
Write
Character
Bare
Everything
Teens
Feel
Adolescence

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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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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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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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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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