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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Heart
Soothe
Speechless
Render
Words
Someone
Power

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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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One kiss, I was totally hooked.
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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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