Alice Hoffman Quotes

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

Some age, others mature.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.

People always grow and mature.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

All of us grow.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.