Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Good
Simply
Time
Wise
People
Public
Learn
Use
Disguise
Better
Nervous
Find
Anxiety
Sometimes
Serve

More quotes by Gregory Maguire

Image
He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate, said Elphaba. See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
Gregory Maguire
Image
Happy endings are still endings.
Gregory Maguire
Image
No one is exempt from grief.
Gregory Maguire
Image
The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
Gregory Maguire
Image
They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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-
Gregory Maguire
Image
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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
Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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
The world was floods above and fire below
Gregory Maguire
Image
She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
Gregory Maguire
Image
And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
Gregory Maguire
Image
And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
Gregory Maguire