When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence. Gregory Maguire Read Quote
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, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently. Gregory Maguire Read Quote
While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon. Gregory Maguire Read Quote
I’m a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I’m up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I’m disgustingly earnest. Gregory Maguire Read Quote
When I began ‘Wicked’, I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was ‘The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end. Gregory Maguire Read Quote
I never write a book unless I can’t help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch. Gregory Maguire Read Quote
I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer. Gregory Maguire Read Quote
My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don’t like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee. Gregory Maguire Read Quote
The story of ‘Mirror Mirror’ is in many ways a story about evolution. It’s about the evolution of a child into an adult. It’s about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It’s about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason. Gregory Maguire Read Quote
