Alice Hoffman Quotes

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

At least I can write.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

I write based on how I feel.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.