Alice Hoffman Quotes

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.

I spy with my little eye a great story.

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog - undervalued and undermined - even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.