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Alice Hoffman
March 16, 1952 -
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

   

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.

   

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

   

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

   

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?

   

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

   

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

   

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

   

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.

   

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

   

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

   

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

   

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.

   

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?

   

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.

   

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

   

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.

   

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

   

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

   

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.

   

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