Quotes from Alice Hoffman

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss eve

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.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.

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.

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.

Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.

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.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

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.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

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

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.