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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Write
Seems
Character
Characters
Take
Magic
Writing
Seem
Life
Start
Words
Comes

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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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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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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?
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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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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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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
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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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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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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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