Alice Hoffman Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books may well be the only true magic.

  Alice Hoffman

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

• All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Book, Character

• He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Looks, Way

  Alice Hoffman (2005). “Blackbird House”, p.82, Alice Hoffman

• Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, People, Library

• I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Breathing, Sigh

  FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from Nov 29, 2015

• Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Reading, Grandmother

• Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

  Alice Hoffman

  Art, Book, Helping

• When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Book, Blow

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Tree, Brooklyn

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Manhattan, Back And Forth

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• [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 that way about fairy tales. They are bloody and scary, but so is life.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Kids, Journey

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• 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

• I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Shelves, Feels

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Years, Twenties

• I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Plot, Stories

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