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.
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.
kissing years waiting
Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
individuality outsiders common
Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
sweaters house hook
That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
understanding found lost
It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
ocean fall eye
He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.