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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Used
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Climb
Writing
Climbs
Larger
Bits
Open
Books
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...I dabble in causes and effects.
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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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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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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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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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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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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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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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You're fun to look at, decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. Fun? he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun, Elphaba said. The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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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.
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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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