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
burden given knows
Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
people want cost
People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
fall love-is arms
Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
chef kinds literature paul reading southern thinking
I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern literature.
names rose soul
What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
silence speech silent
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
hurt eye i-can
I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.