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"Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods." -- Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1996 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 romance and relationships.

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"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.""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.""Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.""Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.""Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.""Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.""Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.""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.""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.""I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.""I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.""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?""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.""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 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?""I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.""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 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 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.""I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.""I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'""I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.""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'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.""Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!""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.""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.""No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.""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.""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.""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.""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."

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Total Books: 458

2016 - The Marriage of Opposites (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781451693607
ISBN-10: 1451693605
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.

2014 - The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781451693560
ISBN-10: 1451693567
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.

2009 - Blue Diary (Audio CD) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781441812544
ISBN-10: 1441812547

Currently 4/5 Stars.

2009 - Local Girls [Audio MP3 CD - Abridged] (Audio CD) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781441812612
ISBN-10: 144181261X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.

2009 - The Story Sisters (Hardcover) → Paperback, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780307393869
ISBN-10: 0307393860
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.

2009 - The Third Angel (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780307405951
ISBN-10: 0307405958
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

2008 - The Third Angel a Novel (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9780739366424
ISBN-10: 0739366424
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Literature & Fiction

Currently 3/5 Stars.

2008 - Skylight Confessions (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316017879
ISBN-10: 0316017876
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.

2007 - Incantation (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780316154284
ISBN-10: 0316154288
Genres: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Teen & Young Adult

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

2007 - Skylight Confessions (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316058780
ISBN-10: 0316058785
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.

2007 - Skylight Confessions a Novel (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9781594836138
ISBN-10: 1594836132
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.

2007 - Incantation (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780316007078
ISBN-10: 0316007072
Genre: Teen & Young Adult

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.

2006 - Incantation [Audio MP3 CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9781423323617
ISBN-10: 1423323610
Genres: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

2006 - The Ice Queen (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780316154383
ISBN-10: 0316154385
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.

266

2005 - The Foretelling (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316010184
ISBN-10: 0316010189
Genres: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult

Currently 4/5 Stars.

2005 - The Ice Queen (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780316058599
ISBN-10: 0316058599
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

135

2005 - Blackbird House (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780345455932
ISBN-10: 0345455932
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.

138

2004 - The Probable Future (Audio Cassette) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781590860458
ISBN-10: 1590860454
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3/5 Stars.

2004 - Green Angel (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780439443852
ISBN-10: 0439443857
Genres: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

2004 - The Probable Future (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780345455918
ISBN-10: 0345455916
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.

176

2003 - The Probable Future (Audio Cassette) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781590860441
ISBN-10: 1590860446
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 5/5 Stars.

2003 - Indigo (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2003 - Water Tales Aquamarine / Indigo (Paperback)

2003 - Green Angel (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2002 - Blue Diary (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

2002 - Aquamarine (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2002 - Blue Diary (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

2001 - Blue Diary (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

2001 - Aquamarine (Hardcover) → Paperback

2000 - The River King (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

2000 - Local Girls [Audio Cassette - Abridged] (Audio Cassette)

2000 - Local Girls (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

2000 - Property Of (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2000 - Local Girls (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

2000 - The River King (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1999 - Here on Earth (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1999 - Local Girls (Hardcover) → Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1999 - Angel Landing (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD

1999 - Fireflies a Winter Tale (Other)

1998 - At Risk (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

1998 - Here on Earth (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1998 - Second Nature (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette

1997 - Turtle Moon (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1997 - Here on Earth Edition [Bookcassetter] (Audio Cassette)

1995 - Second Nature (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette

1994 - Second Nature (Audio Cassette) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette

1994 - Second Nature (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette

1993 - Angel Landing (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD

1993 - Turtle Moon (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1992 - Turtle Moon (Audio Cassette) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1992 - Turtle Moon (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1991 - Seventh Heaven (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

1990 - Seventh Heaven (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

Here on Earth (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD

Skylight Confessions (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

The Story Sisters (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD

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