Top 34 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

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.

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.

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?

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

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?

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

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.

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.

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