Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Her father...was all front to back in his transparency: what you saw was what there was, there was nothing clandestine in his character, and… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Because way back before you were even born there was this girl you see. And I fell in love with her. It was something… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context. — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“I know that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that pebble cannot be thrown into the… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“...a novelist...we dream non-living characters and animate them with out words...” — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life. — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
