752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

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.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.