Don't make me sit through reality.

— Alice Hoffman

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

— Alice Hoffman

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

— Alice Hoffman

...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.

— Alice Hoffman

[Eddie] wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father.

— Alice Hoffman

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

— Alice Hoffman

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

— Alice Hoffman

Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.

— Alice Hoffman

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

— Alice Hoffman

Feelings are the best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive.

— Alice Hoffman