Alice Hoffman Quotes - Page 10

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm a really eclectic reader.

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

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

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

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.