Alice Hoffman Quotes - Page 10

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

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Plot, Stories

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• I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Lying, Down And

  "Practical Magic". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

  Alice Hoffman

  Forever, Sorrow, Fortune

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.67, Penguin Group

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• He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Looks, Way

  Alice Hoffman (2005). “Blackbird House”, p.82, Alice Hoffman

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• At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ocean, Wind, Sea

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• Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Mean, Space

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• He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Disappointment, People

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Indigo”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

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• Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Wise, Mother

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• Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

  Alice Hoffman

  Hurt, People, Bird

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• I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

  Alice Hoffman

  Pride, Secret, Saws

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• What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.

  Alice Hoffman

  Wall, Thinking, Magic

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Manhattan, Back And Forth

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

  Alice Hoffman

  Growing Up, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

  Alice Hoffman

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Feels

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

  Alice Hoffman

  People, Rays, My Favorite

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

  Alice Hoffman

  Important, Height, Emily

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• 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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• I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.

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  Eye, The End Of The Day, Use

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sorrow, Used

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I'm a really eclectic reader.

  Alice Hoffman

  Reader, Eclectic

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

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  Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Love

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

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  Character, Men, Faithful

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sex, Groups, Mary

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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