Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffmanis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth16 March 1952
CountryUnited States of America
dream people busy
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
childhood way persons
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
character writing magic
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
falling-in-love garden rose
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
taken glory given
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
mind would-be four
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
running mean home
It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
stories true-story
They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
brother forget disappear
Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
good-luck perspective knows
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
pride funny-things treasure
Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
teeth fairy-tale tales
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
notebook eye medicine
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.
emotional rivals fairy-tale
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