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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.

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 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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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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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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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
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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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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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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 nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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