Alice Hoffman Quotes

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• My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school,…
• Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
• What else is there to write about than love and loss?
• Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
• Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
• 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…
• Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real…
• No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
• I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
• All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in…
• Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
• 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
• I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
• 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,…
• Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
• 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…
• 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.…
• I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
• I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
• Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

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