Alice Hoffman

“She’s not a demon, she’s a woman,” my mother said sadly. “In this case, that’s worse.”

— Alice Hoffman

“In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people…

— Alice Hoffman

“You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about…

— Alice Hoffman

“Like the rabbi with the red circle, she should have said "no" to everything. She should have become a raven. She didn't…

— Alice Hoffman

“What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was…

— Alice Hoffman

“At first it appeared as if something with wings had fallen from above... perhaps an angel who had faltered then drowned, in…

— Alice Hoffman

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

— Alice Hoffman

I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

— Alice Hoffman

“Don't waste time when there's someone you love.”

— Alice Hoffman

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a…

— Alice Hoffman

“Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her…

— Alice Hoffman

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent…

— Alice Hoffman

“All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.”

— Alice Hoffman

“There he is, in the fading light, certain of what he wants, certain of her. If Gillian were speaking to her sister,…

— Alice Hoffman

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one…

— Alice Hoffman

“Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of…

— Alice Hoffman

“That spring he found the old bear, dead, in one of the caves. He slept beside the body. He dreamed the bear…

— Alice Hoffman

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card…

— Alice Hoffman

“Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire…

— Alice Hoffman

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was…

— Alice Hoffman

“Rules of Magic: Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in…

— Alice Hoffman

“If you do not face something, it will follow you anyway.”

— Alice Hoffman

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending…

— Alice Hoffman

“Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.”

— Alice Hoffman

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control…

— Alice Hoffman