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
husband dark night
When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.
walks
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
inspirational real writing
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
real might lasts
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
running mean sometimes
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
girl aunt magic
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances
character writing cutting
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
love weather two
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
done sometimes feels
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
grandmother thinking sky
My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.
strong needs weak
The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
easier
I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
changed humans knows
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
inspirational book reading
Books may well be the only true magic.