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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

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Novels
Mostly
Films
Novel
Film
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Different
Internals
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Never
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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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
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