Alice Hoffman quotes - page 5

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? (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. View quote
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay. View quote
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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life. View quote
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.' View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing. (Alice Hoffman)
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help. View quote
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction. View quote
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can. View quote
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine. View quote
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote. View quote
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Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood. View quote
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(Love) walks up to you, and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become. View quote
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Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times. View quote
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The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day. View quote
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Life is beautiful, just very unfair. (Alice Hoffman)
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? View quote
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