Alice Hoffman Quotes About Writing
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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
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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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
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When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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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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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
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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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?
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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