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Alice Hoffman

"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."

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"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."

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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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"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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"Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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