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> [“I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/i-thought-again-what-an-achievement-a-book-is-a-magic-box/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

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## More by Ivan Doig

> [“My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of words I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/my-books-already-threatened-to-take-over-my-part-of-the-room-and-keep/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/it-came-to-me-more-as-a-whisper-of-suggestion-than-the-fundamental/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [“Life is wide. There's room to take a new run at it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/life-is-wide-there-s-room-to-take-a-new-run-at-it/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 on my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/thinking-is-thinking-it-happens-in-spite-of-a-person-i-don-t-have-any/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [“... hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/hindsight-is-always-through-bifocals-it-peers-specifically-instead-of/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/the-nature-of-love-is-that-it-catches-you-off-guard-subjects-you-to/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/every-soldier-in-the-course-of-time-exists-only-in-the-breath-of/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [“I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/i-thought-again-what-an-achievement-a-book-is-a-magic-box/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [“Nightly awaits that sweet address Principality of Sleep Happy Land of Forgetfullness”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/nightly-awaits-that-sweet-address-principality-of-sleep-happy-land-of/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [“Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/men-and-women-are-hard-ore-we-do-not-go-to-slag-in-a-mere-few-seasons/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/childhood-is-the-one-story-that-stands-by-itself-in-every-soul/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/i-am-a-writer-not-a-transcriber/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 h ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/but-earth-and-heart-don-t-have-much-of-a-membrane-between-them/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/there-is-more-time-than-there-is-expanse-of-the-world-and-so-any/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

> [The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-doig/the-spaces-between-stars-are-where-the-work-of-the-universe-is-done/)

[Ivan Doig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-doig/)

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