“A mother to a reckless, feckless, one-off of a child—but what child isn’t?” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“But who could teach daughters how to fly? Parents were by definition earthbound, grub eaters, feet in their own coffins, by dint… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“It would have made a nice painting, were someone to choose something as lowly as that to study. Another story, a story… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“The unvisited grannies, in stone houses by the wheat field, can't remember their husbands or children. They worry their hands, though, hands… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves. All the literature… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“What the hell are you doing up there?' So he slipped, of course, because he was startled, and because fate, having been… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“She wondered, faintly, if it was immoral to raise children in the habit of hope. Was it not, in the end, all… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“But now? Now? Children in the twentieth and this early twenty-first century hated the Alice books, couldn't read them, and why should… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Surely there is the handful of nursery marchen that start, ‘Once in the middle of a forest lived an old witch’ or… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of anger: hot and cold. Boys and girls experience both, but as they grow up the anger separates according to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see what daybreak… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
