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
ideas hatred done
And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
grieving losing-friends done
In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
blood sorrow done
A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten ...
giving done riding
Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
done sometimes feels
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
character writing magic
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
dream people busy
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
american-author imagined
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?
great helping survivors voices
We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back Sept. 11.
reading imagination joy
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
reading pages-turning people
Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
wish tongue facts
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
grandmother perfect cold
I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.
blue sky forever
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.