Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffmanis an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth16 March 1952
CountryUnited States of America
character writing magic
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.
love writing loss
What else is there to write about than love and loss?
dream writing loss
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?
real character writing
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
writing different novelists
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
writing want language
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
writing use faster
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
writing novel knows
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
book writing forget-everything
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
inspirational real writing
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.
character writing cutting
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.
dream people busy
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
american-author imagined
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?
great helping survivors voices
We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back Sept. 11.