“The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.” — 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
“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
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
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context. — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share
“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
“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
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
...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
“...a novelist...we dream non-living characters and animate them with out words...” — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share
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
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
What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share
Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity,… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share
