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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Really
Medicine
Movies
Best
Sometimes

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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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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.
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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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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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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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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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
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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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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope in their opinion, dirt could wait.
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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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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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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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