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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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“Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.”

Ifs Way Stills Might Dies Endless Best Way Grass Being The Best Silver Burned Tails Glowing Comets Chapel Starlight Hammered

Author:Gregory Maguire

“The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.”

Doe Might Breakfast Elsewhere Wickedness Bedtime Colossal

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.”

Kind Doe Different Seems Might Young Wish Can Do Imagination Practice Imagine Greed Harm Imagine That

Author:Gregory Maguire

“To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows”

People Ends Reason Might Action Opinion Amount Irises

Author:Gregory Maguire

“...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.”

Ifs Knows Wells Kind Stills Ends Helping Stories Use Might Spirit Answers Mankind Wall Protect Painter Miserable Suspects Hanging On Porcelain

Author:Gregory Maguire

“If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.”

Ifs Way Might Dies Best Way Grass Being The Best

Book:Wicked

Source: Wicked

“She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.”

Might Able Evil Differences Doing Good Resisting

Author:Gregory Maguire

“No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.”

War Home Might House Enemy Wise Welcome Amusing Making Friends Old And Wise

Book:Mirror Mirror: A Novel

Source: Mirror Mirror: A Novel

“Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.”

Knows Use Might Prayer Forever Speed Confession Live Forever Merely Existing

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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