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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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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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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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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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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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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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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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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 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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