Gregory Maguire Quotes - Page 6

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

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.

To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

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.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

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

Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.

Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

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

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

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.

That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.

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

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 actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

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.

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.