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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


#any #becomes #boarding #boarding school #certain

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.


Alice Hoffman


#disappears #every #every time #everything #finish

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.


Alice Hoffman


#dark #definitely #given #i #i do

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.


Alice Hoffman


#deep #emotional #emotional truth #fairy #fairy tales

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.


Alice Hoffman


#between #both #cloth #concerned #distinction

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.


Alice Hoffman


#always #different #difficult #growing #growing up

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


#factor #fiction #huge #i #i think

I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'


Alice Hoffman


#asked #came #come #doing #friend

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


#believe #bound #connection #control #deny

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.


Alice Hoffman


#beautiful #enduring #feel #get #guilty






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