Quote

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

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
Children
Restraint
Adults
Sense

More quotes by 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
Even God used silence as a strategy.
Gregory Maguire
Image
There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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
You confuse not speaking with not listening.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
Gregory Maguire
Image
To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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
They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
Gregory Maguire
Image
To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
Gregory Maguire
Image
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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
I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
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
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
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
Gregory Maguire