Gregory Maguire

Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.

— Gregory Maguire

...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but…

— Gregory Maguire

Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness…

— Gregory Maguire

“Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but…

— Gregory Maguire

“Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for…

— Gregory Maguire

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of…

— Gregory Maguire

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

— Gregory Maguire

“One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her-is it ever the right choice?”

— Gregory Maguire

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally…

— Gregory Maguire

“Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to…

— Gregory Maguire

He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could…

— Gregory Maguire

“Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't…

— Gregory Maguire

“The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. It…

— Gregory Maguire

“You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what…

— Gregory Maguire

To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your…

— Gregory Maguire

“People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It’s the people who claim that they’re…

— Gregory Maguire

It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet…

— Gregory Maguire

I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way…

— Gregory Maguire

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

“I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I‚Äôd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real…

— Gregory Maguire

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…

— Gregory Maguire

“But the pinkness and whiteness of underskirts and camisoles, the frilliness of foundation garments, the rustle about the bustle and the fuss…

— Gregory Maguire

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art…

— Gregory Maguire

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called…

— Gregory Maguire

“They had ganged up on her, in the claustrophobic, loving way of families, and she wanted no more of it.”

— Gregory Maguire

...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and…

— Gregory Maguire

I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found…

— Gregory Maguire

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has…

— Gregory Maguire

And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of…

— Gregory Maguire

“To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never…

— Gregory Maguire