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I'm a really eclectic reader.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Eclectic
Reader
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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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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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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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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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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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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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
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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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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
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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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