Alice LaPlante

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Alice LaPlante is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer. She also teaches in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. Her fiction has been widely published in Epoch, Southwestern Review, and other literary journals. Alice is the author of five books, including the LA Times bestseller Method and Madness: The Making of a Story (W.W. Norton 2009). Her latest book, the novel Turn of Mind, will be published by Grove Atlantic in 2011. She lives with her family in Northern California.

Turn of Mind won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize for 2011

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Books by Alice LaPlante

Average rating: 3.67 · 4,008 ratings · 1,052 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Turn of Mind 3.66 avg rating — 3,847 ratings — published 2011 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing 4.11 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Method and Madness: The Making of a Story 4.51 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Playing for Profit: How Digital Entertainment is Making Big Business Out of Child's Play by Alice LaPlante, Rich Seidner 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Better Business Bureau's Buying a Home by Better Business Bureau, Alice LaPlante 3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Passion to Profits: Business Success for New Entrepreneurs by Rhonda Abrams, Alice LaPlante 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	Better Business Bureau's Starting an eBay Business by Better Business Bureau, Alice LaPlante (With) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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“Yes, Halloween excites me. That whole time of year, autumn, I find exhilarating. A passionate season. The others are so bland. In the fall, you see opportunities for change. Real change. Possibilities present themselves. None of the renewal and redemption cliches of spring. No. Something darker and more primal and more important than that.”
― Alice LaPlante

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“the secret of happy marriage: not honesty, not forgiveness, but acceptance that is a kind of respect for the other's right to make mistakes.”
― Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind

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“You don't get emotional over a hand. A hand is a collection of thoughts.”
― Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind

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