“Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.” — 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
“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I… — 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
“Her salvation was the novels she read. On nights she thought it might br better not to be alive w/o Levi in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She kept a stack of books near the tub so she could read in the bath, even though the edges of the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real… Once I got to my… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there’s a book you… — 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
“Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — 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
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
