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Gregory Maguire is an American novelist known for his reinterpretation of classic fairy tales. His works are characterized by profound moral implications and rich imagination, which have won him a wide audience.

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“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.”

Children Philosophy Hope Ignorance Innocence Wicked Witch Dorothy

Book:Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.”

Children Storytelling Fairytales

Book:A Lion Among Men

Source: A Lion Among Men

“The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.”

Way Children Littles Reason Stories Light Age Darkness Middle Rocks Evolution Adults Mirrors Middle Ages Dwarves Age Of Reason

Author:Gregory Maguire

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

Children Adults Restraint

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.”

Men Children Turns Grows Realizing Common Growing Up Coaches Mice Rats Pumpkin

Author:Gregory Maguire

“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 child.”

Children Okay Green Grass Wicked Wicked The Musical

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.”

Children Used Parent Behinds Gone Generations Figures Our Children Command Tick Spirited Riddance Good Riddance

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”

People Needs Children Born Animal Accepting Greater Shame Silly Embarrassing Silly Things

Author:Gregory Maguire

“...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.”

Children Soul Liberty Deserve Pursuit Opening Meals Immortal Limbs Sermons Immortal Soul Fins

Book:Lost: A Novel

Source: Lost: A Novel

“Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.”

Knows World Children Existence Humility Small Child Instill Catechism

Book:Mirror Mirror: A Novel

Source: Mirror Mirror: A Novel

About the Author

Born: June 9, 1954
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 305

Books & Sources

The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of OzRelated source material

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the WestRelated source material

WickedRelated source material

Out of OzRelated source material

Mirror Mirror: A NovelRelated source material

Son of a WitchRelated source material

A Lion Among MenRelated source material

Elphie: A Wicked ChildhoodRelated source material

HiddenseeRelated source material

A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked YearsRelated source material

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