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19 quotes by Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of the novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and many other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are revisionist retellings of classic children's stories: for example, in Wicked he transformed the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its...
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Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you're really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little... →

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In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after... →

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While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a... →

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The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about... →

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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only... →

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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

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I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold... →

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I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at... →

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I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm... →

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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

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I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a... →

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I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

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