They were written on cheap ... by Alice Hoffman, an American Author

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“They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.”

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Alice Hoffman

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Name: Alice Hoffman

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Mar 16, 1952

Profession: Author

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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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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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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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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?

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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

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