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Unfinished business always co...

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.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

All the characters in my book...

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

Fairytales were maps formed o...

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

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I'm at the point where going ...

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

No one knows you like a perso...

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.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

The only people out at this h...

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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My theory is that everyone at...

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

After a while, the characters...

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

I'm much faster now. When you...

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

The adults don't know what's ...

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

They were written on cheap bl...

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

No one knows how to write a n...

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

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I feel more influenced in my ...

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?

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

Mothers always find ways to f...

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.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

The original fairy tale was a...

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 think we are bound to, and ...

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

Ironically, now that my child...

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

I think love is a huge factor...

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

I don't think I make much of ...

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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Any institution becomes a com...

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Alice Hoffman 271 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....