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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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New York
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It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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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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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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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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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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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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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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