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Gregory Maguire
American Novelist
Born: Jun 9, 1954
Book Ever Life Mirror Myself Wicked
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you're really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful. Gregory Maguire
You Yourself Mirror Unless Something More Generally Feel Look Looks Soulful Intelligent Than Person Curious Often Interesting Little Depressed Really Noticed Ever Actually Competent
When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end. Gregory Maguire
Life Book Thought Gone Wicked Say Says Follow Follow-Up No Intention Entirely Witch Dead She Because West Began End Up Times Intention Really Should English Ever
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
Me Book Mosquito Unless Relieve Something Bother Write Never Like Until Itch Help
My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently. Gregory Maguire
Work Job First Lost Colleagues Hated More More Or Less New First Job Most Permanently Friendly Taste York New York Ice Ice Cream Uniform Cream Less Albany
I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest. Gregory Maguire
Heart Disguise Earnest Ways Some Podium Fact Writer Comic Up Person Order
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence. Gregory Maguire
Book Out Write Very Page Sequence Ever Hardly Last
I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent. Gregory Maguire
Character Mother First Lost Books Parent Almost Dead Any Central Realize Who Even
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason. Gregory Maguire
History Age Darkness Light Mirror Too Ways Those Evolution About Something More Adult Child Middle Middle Ages Story Little Ages Less Reason Many
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind. Gregory Maguire
Life Writing Mind Slow Understanding Complexities Bad Clarity Admire Slow Process Seeking Rate Arduous Write Because Same Proceeds Process Which Act
In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. Gregory Maguire
Sense Out Complications Examination Individuals How Afflicted Going Oz After Them Themselves Even Keep Keep Going Lives Reinventing
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
Love Voice Had Longer Performer Sing Loved Should Sweeter Set Bones

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