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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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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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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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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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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
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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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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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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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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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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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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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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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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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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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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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