“The idea of magic and reality intertwined is really
appealing to me. I lived in a working-class suburb in Long Island, right over
the border from Queens, so it was very gritty. Every house was the same. There
were no trees. It was neither here nor there. It was the least magical place.
And yet it felt magical. If you can view that place with magic, any place can
be filled with magic.”—Novelist, short-story writer, and memoirist Alice
Hoffman quoted in Hillary Casavant, “
How I Write: Alice Hoffman,” The
Writer, September 2013
(The image accompanying this post, showing Alice
Hoffman at BookExpo in New York City, was taken May 30, 2019 by Rhododendrites.)
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