My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...a time that is is neither day nor night, when the veil of illusion is thinner and we can see things in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“ON JUNE 28, 1969, THE WEATHER WAS HOT, EIGHTY-SEVEN DEGREES, UNUSUAL FOR THE TIME OF YEAR. NEW YORK CITY GREW STEAMY, AS… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Fourth time's the charm," she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when every one of our people understands that a Jew can never be attached to a place. The… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“These were the times when children dreamed about nuclear testing and falling stars. There was an undercurrent of unrest, like a wave,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He took the narrow stairs two at a time all the way to the first floor. He then went out through the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What he was doing was actually a hundred times worse. He was telling her that he loved her, something he hadn't mentioned… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“As they were falling asleep, Gillian could have sworn she heard Ben say Fate--as if they were meant to be together from… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Listen carefully. Listen and you'll hear everything you need to know. a nightmare is a different case entirely, it's a box of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In no time the perennial borders were thick with rosy-pink foxglove and cream-colored lilies, each of which hung like a pendant, collecting… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“All of the quarters in his hand were tarnished. He had no idea that the silver in a man’s pockets always turns black if… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers’ rights, which he considered a privilege rather… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
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 Copy Share
