752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

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.

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.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

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

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled