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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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Famous Gregory Maguire Quotes

“My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.”

Ifs Mind Jobs Protect Protect You

Author:Gregory Maguire

“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”

Way Mind Past Loses Memories Significance Episodes Past Memories

Author:Gregory Maguire

“A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.”

Mind Made Female Prepared Males Bother Disappointed Why Bother Supple Disappointed In You

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.”

Mind Care Don't Care I Don't Care Approval Overrated Disapproval

Author:Gregory Maguire

“But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.”

Ifs Knows Mind Looks Home Eye Faces Turns Gone Focus Missing Bird Filled Dry Inward Hollow Filled Up

Author:Gregory Maguire

“The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.”

Mind Momentum Capricious

Author:Gregory Maguire

“I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Behinds Leaving If I Could Elphaba

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

“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 it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.”

Writing Mind Process Understanding Rate Seeking Admire Clarity Complexity Sloth

Author:Gregory Maguire

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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