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Alice Hoffman Quotes (1952-)
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About Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is 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.
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“What you dream, you can grow.”
“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”
“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”
“The most she dared to wish for now was to live long enough to become a woman. (p46)”
“This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.”
“Artists have themes that they go back to—that they are haunted by and obsessed with.”
“Other people’s judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.”
“That’s still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.”
“I think that I always wanted to tell the stories of women who were not able to tell their own stories.”
“I always think it helps not to think about anyone reading your work, but to write what you would want to read.”
“I wrote to remind myself that in the darkest hour the roses still bloom, the stars still come out at night (preface)”
“I usually do start with setting. I try to build a fictional world, and then hope that the characters will walk into it.”
“He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul. (p348)”
“I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change your fate.”
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Alice Hoffman on Witchcraft 2 quotes
“There's a little witch in all of us.”
Alice Hoffman on Fahrenheit 451 2 quotes
“Fahrenheit 451 is an American classic and a work of genius...”
Alice Hoffman on Writing 2 quotes
“I always feel you're writing the book you couldn't find, so you have to write it yourself.”
Alice Hoffman on Dreams
“What you dream, you can grow.”
Alice Hoffman on Growth
“What you dream, you can grow.”
Alice Hoffman on Artist
“Artists have themes that they go back to—that they are haunted by and obsessed with.”
Alice Hoffman on Childhood
Alice Hoffman on Normality
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
Alice Hoffman on Courage
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
Alice Hoffman on Loneliness
Alice Hoffman on Listening
“Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.”
Alice Hoffman on Silence
“Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.”
What Alice Hoffman Said About Others
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Alice Hoffman on Emily Brontë 2 quotes
“Don't forget books. What would life be without them? Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, William Faulkner. Read the greats-they're great for a reason. They know how to chart the human soul. (p 32)”
Alice Hoffman on Toni Morrison 2 quotes
“Don't forget books. What would life be without them? Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, William Faulkner. Read the greats-they're great for a reason. They know how to chart the human soul. (p 32)”
Alice Hoffman on Ray Bradbury 2 quotes
“I spent one entire summer reading Ray Bradbury...I remained in Ray Bradbury's world for as long as possible. It was a place where it was possible to recognize good from evil, darkness from light. I was a cynical kid, and I didn't have much faith in the world, but I trusted Ray Bradbury. I took everything he said personally. (p 33)”
Alice Hoffman on Marge Piercy
“Marge Piercy is a literary icon-novelist, poet, social activist.”
Alice Hoffman on Jane Austen
“Don't forget books. What would life be without them? Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, William Faulkner. Read the greats-they're great for a reason. They know how to chart the human soul. (p 32)”
Alice Hoffman on Edgar Allan Poe
“Don't forget books. What would life be without them? Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, William Faulkner. Read the greats-they're great for a reason. They know how to chart the human soul. (p 32)”
Alice Hoffman on F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Don't forget books. What would life be without them? Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, William Faulkner. Read the greats-they're great for a reason. They know how to chart the human soul. (p 32)”
Alice Hoffman on Philip K. Dick
“I have no guilt regarding my love of fantasy and science fiction, only pleasure. I grew up reading the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. I chuckle over how this “genre” has become mainstream and how time travel, alternative universes and magic are now so everyday. Plus, no one could ever feel guilty about reading writers like Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick.”
Alice Hoffman on Ursula K. Le Guin
“I have no guilt regarding my love of fantasy and science fiction, only pleasure. I grew up reading the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. I chuckle over how this “genre” has become mainstream and how time travel, alternative universes and magic are now so everyday. Plus, no one could ever feel guilty about reading writers like Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick.”
Alice Hoffman on Grace Paley
“(Whom do you consider your literary heroes?) Toni Morrison, Grace Paley, Emily Brontë, Ray Bradbury, all for different reasons, all adored...I had the extreme honor of reading with Grace several times. On one occasion there was the potential of some political differences with the audience. Nervous, I asked Grace what we should do if we were heckled. She said, “Honey, we’ll just sink to their level.” Then she stood on a box because she was too tiny to reach the microphone and quickly made everyone fall in love with her.”
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Isabel Allende on Alice Hoffman
“you will find elements of magic realism in literature from all over the world—not just in Latin America. You will find it in Scandinavian sagas, in African poetry, in Indian literature written in English, in American literature written by ethnic minorities. Writers like Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, and Alice Hoffman all use this style.”
Jodi Picoult quoted on Alice Hoffman
“My favorite writer is Alice Hoffman; she’s brilliant.”
Amy Tan blurb on Alice Hoffman
“Alice Hoffman takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.”
About Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is 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.
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