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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
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New York City
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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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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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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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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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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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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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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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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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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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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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