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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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Sorrow
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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 was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.
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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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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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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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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 just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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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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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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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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