[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
“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.” — 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 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
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
“Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.” — 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 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 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
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
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