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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
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Eclectic
Reader

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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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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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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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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 read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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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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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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What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.
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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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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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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
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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