Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffmanis an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth16 March 1952
CountryUnited States of America
teeth fairy-tale tales
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
stories true-story
They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
mind would-be four
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.
writing novel knows
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
dream book character
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
kids adults happenings
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
brother forget disappear
Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
taken glory given
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
notebook eye medicine
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.
giving riddle
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
people tree world
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?
stars sky purple
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.
dream lying who-i-am
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
good-luck perspective knows
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.