Alice Hoffman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Novel, Know How

  FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from May 24, 2015

• Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Teeth, Fairy Tale

• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Inspirational, Real, Writing

• What else is there to write about than love and loss?

  Alice Hoffman

  Love, Writing, Loss

• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Character, Cutting

• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Loyalty, Block, Real

• 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

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Writing, Character

• 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

  Dream, Halloween, Writing

• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Character, Magic

• Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Writing, Forget Everything

• 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

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Use, Faster

• 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

  Writing, Want, Language

• 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

  Writing, Novelists, Different

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