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
Alice Hoffman quotes about
chef kinds literature paul reading southern thinking
I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern literature.
burden given knows
Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
walks
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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.
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.
stories true-story
They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
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.
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
waiting
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
medicine sometimes
Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
lioness teeth wonder
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
i-can one-thing-at-a-time one-thing
I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
ocean wind sea
At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
sorrow waking waking-life
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.