Ivan Doig

“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”

— Ivan Doig

“We count by years, but we live by days.”

— Ivan Doig

Life is mostly freehand.

— Ivan Doig

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

— Ivan Doig

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

— Ivan Doig

“... hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.”

— Ivan Doig

“Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty".”

— Ivan Doig

“Life is wide. There's room to take a new run at it.”

— Ivan Doig

“Nightly awaits that sweet address Principality of Sleep Happy Land of Forgetfullness”

— Ivan Doig

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

— Ivan Doig

“Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.”

— Ivan Doig

“Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. … I don’t have any choice. This stuff I’m talking about is…

— Ivan Doig

“I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders…

— Ivan Doig

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

— Ivan Doig

“My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of…

— Ivan Doig

“Hooting and hollering, the crowd reliably responded as if that were the height of humor, while Herman slapped me on the back…

— Ivan Doig

“But earth and heart don't have much of a membrane between them. Sometimes decided on grounds as elusive as that single transposable…

— Ivan Doig

It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not…

— Ivan Doig

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

— Ivan Doig