“All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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
“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.” — 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
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by… — 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
“Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire… — 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
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I… — 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
“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 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
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
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight… — 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
