Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

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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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

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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? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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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? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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