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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Humane
Especially
Fiction
Science
Love

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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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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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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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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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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
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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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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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Books may well be the only true magic.
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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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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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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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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