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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.

From Gregory Maguire

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.

From Gregory Maguire

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.

From Gregory Maguire

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

From Gregory Maguire

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.

From Gregory Maguire

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.

From Gregory Maguire

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

From Gregory Maguire

I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

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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.

From Gregory Maguire

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.

From Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire

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