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The speaker is saying that their writing process is straightforward and orderly. They usually begin at the start of a book and move through it in sequence rather than writing scenes out of order.
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About Gregory Maguire
American novelist
Gregory Maguire is an American novelist, known for Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and many other books for adults and children. His work is closely associated with retellings and reimaginings of familiar stories. He published his first novel, The Lightning Time, in 1978. Wicked, published in 1995, was his first novel for adults and later became the basis for a popular Broadway musical in 2003, which was then adapted into a two-part musical film series.
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- “I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.”Gregory Maguire
- “The world was floods above and fire below”Gregory Maguire
- “What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions…”Gregory Maguire
- “Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”Gregory Maguire
Books: more sayings
- “I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films.”Romesh Gunesekera
- “I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized…”Patrick deWitt
- “If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn…”Neil Gaiman
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Books by Gregory Maguire
Wicked
2004
Son of a Witch
2008
A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, Book 3)
2009
Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory)
1999
Mirror Mirror
2004