Alice Hoffman — American Author born on March 16, 1952,

Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships... (wikipedia)

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.