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 of us. I lived. — 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
