No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
More Quotes from Alice Hoffman:
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
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.
Alice Hoffman
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
Alice Hoffman
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
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'
Alice Hoffman
I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern literature.
Alice Hoffman
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