Gregory Maguire Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.”

“I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.”

“My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.”

“When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.”

“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.”

“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.”