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You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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The best way to die is when your living
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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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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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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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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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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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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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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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
Alice Hoffman