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I always think it helps not to think about anyone reading your work, but to write what you would want to read.

— Alice Hoffman Reddit AMA (2021)

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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Here on Earth (1997)

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Practical Magic (1995)

Artists have themes that they go back to—that they are haunted by and obsessed with.

Interview with Goodreads (2009)

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

The Foretelling (2005)

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

The Dovekeepers (2011)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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