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Alice Hoffman Biography

Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

Lioness, Manage, Teeth, Wonder

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

Arms, Certain, Judge, Judging, Relationship, Unless

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

Book, Character, Dream, Dreams, Formed, Imagined

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.

Purple, Sky, Stars, Thrown

. . . but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

Crime, Pretending, Worst

. . . and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

Afternoon, Afternoons, Like, Orchards, Pie, Village

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Circles, Innocence, Judgement, Prove

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

Know How, Knows, Novel, Writing, Written

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

Country, Fringe, Healing, School

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

Closet, Hook, House, Sweaters, Way

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.

Blue, Eye, Kind, Notebook, Notebooks, Way

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

1950S, Back And Forth, Book, Forth, Jack, Manhattan

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Done, Love, Two, Weather

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

Butterflies, Butterfly, Instance, Men, Return, Way

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.

Contained, House, Individuals, People, Revealed, Soul

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

Emotional, Fairy Tale, Rival, Rivals, Tales, Truth

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Break, Take, Way, World

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

Choose, Everyone, Listen, Trust, Voice

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.

Arms, Fall, Like, Love, Love Is, Spin

Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

Common, Individuality, Outsider, Outsiders, Thing

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