Alice Hoffman Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Books may well be the only true magic.

  Alice Hoffman

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

• 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

  Art, Real, Reading

• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Reading, Pages Turning, People

  Alice Hoffman (2005). “Blackbird House”, p.97, Alice Hoffman

• That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

  Alice Hoffman

  Reading, Imagination, Joy

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2016

• Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Reading, Grandmother

• I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Hate, Reading

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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