Alice Hoffman Quotes

• 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?

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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.

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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?

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

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• I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

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• 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.

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• I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman’s domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

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• 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.

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• Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it – the information just disappears out of my head.

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

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

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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.

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• Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you’re gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

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• All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

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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.

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• Mothers always find ways to fit in the work – but then when you’re working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you’re with your children, you’re thinking about working.

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Alice Hoffman (36)

Birth:	16th March, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Alice Hoffman was born in New York City and raised on Long Island, New York. Her grandmother was Russian. She graduated from Adelphi University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She earned a Master of Arts degree in creative writing from Stanford University, where she was an Edith Mirrielees Fellow.
Hoffman's first job was at Doubleday, which later published two of her novels.
She wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film Independence Day, starring Kathleen Quinlan and Dianne Wiest.
Hoffman is a Scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.
She and her husband reside in Boston. After being treated for breast cancer at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, she helped establish the hospital's Hoffman Breast Center.

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