Alice Hoffman

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

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.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.