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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.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Also Being Considered Domain Fairy Fairy Tales Folk Idea Lesser Like Tales Time Were Whole Woman

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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.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Always Deep Emotional Fairy Fairy Tales Feel Felt Few Few Things Really Rival Still Tales Them Things Truth

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

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Always Come Feel Home Kids Pretty Quit School Spoiled Three I Feel

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

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: More One Thing Really Than Thing Time Work

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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?

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Been Before Book Did Feel Go Imagined Later Like More Real Sometimes Than Wrote I Feel I Feel Like

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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.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Else Escape Find Get Language Looking Lot Much Other Read Really Someone Thing Used Want Working Writing

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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.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: As Far As Between Both Cloth Concerned Distinction Fantastic Far Make Much Real Same Seem Think Threads

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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?

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: About Culture Dreams Else Feel Influenced Loss Love More Movies My Own Other Own Popular Popular Culture Than Way Work Works Write Writers I Feel

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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Begun Book Hopefully Itself Never Novels Once Out Plot Reveals Story Terms Tone

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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.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Because Different Film Films Internal Mostly Never Novel Novelist Novels See While Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 16th, 1952

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