American - Author | March 16, 1952 -
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.
Alice Hoffman
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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!
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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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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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
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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.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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