"She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips,……" — Gregory Maguire
"She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent."
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Gregory Maguire
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201 Quotes by Gregory Maguire
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