Quote

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.

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
Years
Wicked
Bed
None
Books
Written
Reviewed
Able
Poorly
Book
Published
Enough
Sold

More quotes by Gregory Maguire

Image
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
Image
[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
Gregory Maguire
Image
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?
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
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
Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Happy endings are still endings.
Gregory Maguire
Image
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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
When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
Gregory Maguire
Image
And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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
Image
His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
Gregory Maguire
Image
It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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
I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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'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