Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
Alice Hoffman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Cruel
Weak
Strong
Need
Needs
More quotes by Alice Hoffman
I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
Alice Hoffman
Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
Alice Hoffman
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
Alice Hoffman
It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
Alice Hoffman
In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
Alice Hoffman
The best way to die is when your living
Alice Hoffman
Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
Alice Hoffman
Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
Alice Hoffman
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
Alice Hoffman
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
Alice Hoffman
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.
Alice Hoffman
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
Alice Hoffman
Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
Alice Hoffman
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
Alice Hoffman
I'm a really eclectic reader.
Alice Hoffman
What men yearn for they often destroy.
Alice Hoffman
...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
Alice Hoffman
Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
Alice Hoffman
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
Alice Hoffman
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
Alice Hoffman