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
quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.
Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
Of course. You get everything from books.
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
One plus one equals both.
Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
It was deliciously pagan.
And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!
The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.
The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.