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

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.

   

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.

   

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

   

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

   

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.

   

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

   

I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'

   

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

   

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

   

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.

   

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.

   

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

   

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

   

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