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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

Topics: Am Bit Books Characters Dreams Formed Imagined Like Much Them Who You Your Your Dreams I Am

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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Always Art Books Difficult Even Figure Forward Go Help How Out Times You

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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Been Books Every Few Movies Screenplays Screenwriter Those Twenty-Five Written Years

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Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: About Always Authors Because Books Clean Inside Interior Know Life Little Matters Meet Place Publishing Read Reading Room Sheltered State Talk Those Timeless Us Where Who Wonder Word Written Written Word

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It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Afraid Again Books Faulkner Forced High High School High School Students Like Me Putting Ready School Students Then Toes Water Worries

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Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Adolescent Also Appealed Appealing Away Books Both Darkness Heights Just Must Reader Right Right Away Romantic Sinking Soul Suppose Them Think Two Young I Think

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I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Always Books Characters Concerned Cringe Discussion Followers Guess How Leads Makes Many Me Online Presence Rather Sentences Stuff Supposed Than Twitter Uncomfortable Writers You

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I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Books Finishing Least Other Simultaneously Spend Takes Tend Then Time Two Whatever Work Writing

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While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Been Besides Books Change First Five Kept Lot Me More Nothing Novel Now Seriously Short Short Stories Stories Taken Than Think Thought Trouble Troubles Until Used Were While Wishing Working Writer Writing Wrote You I Think

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'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Adolescence After Beginning Book Books Childhood Classic Every Lives Material Really Should Sure Those Writer Written You Younger

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