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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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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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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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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 world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
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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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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.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
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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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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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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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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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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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