Alice Hoffman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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 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?”