Alice Hoffman Quotes - Page 3

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• I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

  Alice Hoffman

  Inspirational, Real, Writing

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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• Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Writing, Forget Everything

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• I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

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  Heart, Fate, Rivers

  Alice Hoffman (2010). “Green Witch”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mind, Twenties, Would Be

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.49, Penguin Group

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• Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

  Alice Hoffman

  Art, Real, Reading

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• They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

  Alice Hoffman

  Notebook, Eye, Blue

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• I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

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  Dream

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

  Alice Hoffman

  Grieving, Losing Friends, Done

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• What men yearn for they often destroy.

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  Men

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

  Alice Hoffman

  Individuality, Outsiders, Common

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• 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 direction

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Writing, Character

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• Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

  Alice Hoffman

  People, Stories

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• I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Thinking, Fantastic

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• Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

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  Judging, Arms, Certain

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.98, Penguin Group

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• Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.

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  Kissing, Years, Waiting

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “The Probable Future”, Random House LLC

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• 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 would be no gates at all.

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  Garden, Would Be, Easy

  FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from Jun 06, 2015

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• People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

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  People, Tree, World

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• They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

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  Stories, True Story

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• The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

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  Stars, Sky, Purple

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.76, Penguin Group

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• Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

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  Thinking, Like Love, Chance

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.49, Penguin

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• Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

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  Love You, Men, Unfinished Business

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.132, Penguin Group

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• Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

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  War, Men, Desire

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

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  I Miss You, Missing You, Beautiful

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.81, Penguin Group

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• A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.

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  Blood, Sorrow, Done

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