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
pain men want
He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
men
What men yearn for they often destroy.
war men desire
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
mother men garden
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
men might tables
What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.
night men shopping
You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
love-you men unfinished-business
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.
men boys different
A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
men waiting maps
It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone — maybe even more alone — than I was…
men secret stories
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
butterfly men way
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
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?