Quote

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Gregory Maguire

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Confuse
Speaking
Listening

More quotes by Gregory Maguire

Image
My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
Gregory Maguire
Image
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
Gregory Maguire
Image
And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
Gregory Maguire
Image
That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
Gregory Maguire
Image
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
Gregory Maguire
Image
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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
Gregory Maguire
Image
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire