Quotes about Imagination
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
— Alice Hoffman
Books may well be the only true magic
— Alice Hoffman
I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.
— Alice Hoffman
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
— Alice Hoffman
What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.
— Alice Hoffman
Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.
— Alice Hoffman
Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets.
— Alice Hoffman
Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...
— Alice Hoffman
I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.
— Alice Hoffman
It was then that Nathaniel truly began to appreciate the years he had spent alone in his room, the distance from other people that had given him the ability to observe and to feel what another might had also made him a writer.
— Alice Hoffman
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
— Alice Hoffman
who I am to talk? I dream of rain.
— Alice Hoffman