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
“Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.” — 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
“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.” — 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
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one… — 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
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
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
“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 hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about men who searched for things they… — 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
[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Somewhere there was a book of love, with all the symptoms written down in red ink: Dizziness and Desire. A tendency to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my books. The… — 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
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
“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
“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
I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a… — 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
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm… — 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
“Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can… — 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
I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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 Image
“...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 Image
![“[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt…” quote by Alice Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/09c/alice-hoffman-427_age_fairy-tales-are-like-a-journey-to-the-wo_1682556.jpg)
![“I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.” quote by Alice Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b3b/alice-hoffman-427_book_i-have-nothing-from-my-childhood-i-think_1351735.jpg)
