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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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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 also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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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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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
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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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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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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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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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