Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Way
Thinker
Make
Slow
Think
Telling
Thinking
Writer
Money
Stories
Care
Kind
Finesse
More quotes by Gregory Maguire
Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
Gregory Maguire
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
Gregory Maguire
She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner! What? She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER! Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.
Gregory Maguire
No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
Gregory Maguire
They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
Gregory Maguire
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.
Gregory Maguire
Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
Gregory Maguire
What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
Gregory Maguire
My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
Gregory Maguire
When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
Gregory Maguire
To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
Gregory Maguire
How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
Gregory Maguire
[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
Gregory Maguire
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
And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
Gregory Maguire
Happy endings are still endings.
Gregory Maguire
So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
Gregory Maguire
In the end, all disguises must drop.
Gregory Maguire
There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
Gregory Maguire
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
Gregory Maguire