Explore Quotes by Alice Hoffman

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

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

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

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.