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
So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder
You confuse not speaking with not listening.
I learned failure early and mastered it.
She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it.
It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.