Alice Hoffman Quotes

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

I think for me I'm always... I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I'm attracted to that mystery.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

The unknown is always interesting.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Everything is interesting to me.

It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn't this expectation of what they're about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.

I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged.

If you tell people what everything is before they have a chance to experience it, then I feel like it's a much different experience.

Everything always interests me.