Alice Hoffman Quotes

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Alice Hoffman

Profession : Author

Birth : March 16, 1952

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

Alice Hoffman

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

Alice Hoffman

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?

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

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

Alice Hoffman

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.

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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

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.

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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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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

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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.

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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.

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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