752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

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

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.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.