#al

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

#book #hopefully #i #itself #never

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

#different #film #films #i #internal

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

#always #different #difficult #growing #growing up

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

#factor #fiction #huge #i #i think

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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#believe #bound #connection #control #deny

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! ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bit #children #find #free #free time

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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bought #cheap #combined #folk #i

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. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#beautiful #enduring #feel #get #guilty

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#bored #boredom #continuously #depressed #goes

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#audience #cost #film #make #movie