Alice Hoffman Quotes

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. - Alice Hoffman

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. - Alice Hoffman

We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back Sept. 11. - Alice Hoffman

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. - Alice Hoffman

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. - Alice Hoffman

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. - Alice Hoffman

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written. - Alice Hoffman

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. - Alice Hoffman

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. - Alice Hoffman

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. - Alice Hoffman

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