Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

Alice Hoffman

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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I... by Alice Hoffman

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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Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me. by Alice Hoffman

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.

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In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters re... by Alice Hoffman

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

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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane. by Alice Hoffman

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

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I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or... by Alice Hoffman

I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

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Let by gones be by gones by Alice Hoffman

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I think of the'60s and'70s as my time period, it was when I began listening to Dylan and going to Greenwich Village and I lived for a while in Northern California. It was such a chaotic time, with so much violence. Our country was divided, and it was nearly impossible to talk to someone' on the other side.' At the same time, people were fighting for their rights, and they came together in an amazing way.

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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

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