Quotes by Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman

American novelist

Lived from: 1952 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 16 march 1952

  • Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
  • You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.
  • I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
  • Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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  • Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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  • Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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  • Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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  • Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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  • Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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  • Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.
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  • Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.
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  • Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
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  • Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
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  • I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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  • I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.
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  • I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.
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  • I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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  • I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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What are the most famous quotes from Alice Hoffman?

The two most famous quotes from Alice Hoffman are:

  • "Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working."
  • "Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working."

When did Alice Hoffman live?

Alice Hoffman is still alive and was born in 1952.