Quotes from Alice Hoffman
I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
- Alice Hoffman
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
- Alice Hoffman
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.
- Alice Hoffman
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
- Alice Hoffman
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
- Alice Hoffman
I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
- Alice Hoffman
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?
- Alice Hoffman
He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
- Alice Hoffman
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
- Alice Hoffman
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
- Alice Hoffman
Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
- Alice Hoffman
Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
- Alice Hoffman