Gregory Maguire Quotes - Page 7

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• 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.

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  Wise, War, Home

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.24, Harper Collins

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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 way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

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  Thinking, Stories, Care

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• Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

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  Prayer, Forever, Use

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.

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  Jobs, Mind, Protect You

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• And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.

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  World, Cold

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• For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

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  Art, Fun, Evil

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• Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.

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  Littles, Divine, Critters

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• Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

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  Loss, Gone, Gorgeous

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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 party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

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  Party, Pride, Garden

  "Meet the Writers: Biography (from barnesandnoble.com)".

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• The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

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  Children, Dwarves, Mirrors

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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 life-altering complications have afflicted them.

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  Examination, Individual, Life Altering

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• I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

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  Art, Voice, Males

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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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  Should Have, Voice, Bones

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• I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

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  Writing, Caring, Numbers

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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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  Classical Music, Century, Late

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• I like to think Im 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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  Thinking, Guy, Way

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• Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.

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  Noticing

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• No one is exempt from grief.

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  Grief, Sadness, Bereavement

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

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  Children, Adults, Restraint

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

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  Needs, Wonderland, Wonder

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• ...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

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  Lying, Healthy, Vengeance

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• If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

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  Monk, Ancestor, Knows

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• To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

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  Mirrors, Blood, Looks

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• From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

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  Men, Wings, Grew

  "Very Short Stories". www.wired.com. November 1, 2006.

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• My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

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  Jobs, New York, Ice Cream

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