In a novel, you’ll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You’ll find shelter there.
– Alice Hoffman
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- The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world. – Alice Hoffman
- We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. – Margaret J Wheatley
- A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. – Edwin Muir
- As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. – Stephen Colbert
- Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel-”and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. – Elizabeth Hardwick
- A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
- You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. – Gene Wolfe
- Books may well be the only true magic. – Alice Hoffman
- Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people’s houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother. – Alice Hoffman
- Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. – Alice Hoffman
- …who I am to talk? I dream of rain. – Alice Hoffman
- It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. – Alice Hoffman
- Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself. – Alice Hoffman
- Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft. – Alice Hoffman
- Don’t make me sit through reality. – Alice Hoffman
- Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn’t returned. – Alice Hoffman
- Mean people are meaningless. – Alice Hoffman
- He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. – Alice Hoffman
- I head a bitterness that hadn’t been there before. Something was changing inside him. He’d had enough of following the rules. – Alice Hoffman
- She didn’t like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she’d been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all. – Alice Hoffman
- She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He’s like a dragon, ancient and fearless. – Alice Hoffman
- The best way to die is when your living – Alice Hoffman
- …never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it’s own. – Alice Hoffman
- I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream. – Alice Hoffman
- … the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go. – Alice Hoffman
- There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story… One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed. – Alice Hoffman
- People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was. – Alice Hoffman
- That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness. – Alice Hoffman
- My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. – Alice Hoffman
- Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn’t have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species. – Alice Hoffman
- I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream. – Alice Hoffman
- …early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills. – Alice Hoffman
- I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards. – Alice Hoffman
- Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you’re not careful. They can eat you alive. – Alice Hoffman
- Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen. – Alice Hoffman
- You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you. – Alice Hoffman
- There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight. – Alice Hoffman
- I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss eve – Alice Hoffman
- It had made her too helpless, because that’s what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything. – Alice Hoffman