Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguireis an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are inspired by classic children's stories; Wicked transforms the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation into the misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba Thropp. The blockbuster Broadway musical Wicked,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 June 1954
CityAlbany, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Gregory Maguire quotes about
If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.
In the end, all disguises must drop.
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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.
It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.