Marianne Wiggins Quotes

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 words inside my thoughts. — Marianne Wiggins

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

To love is to accept that one might die another death before one dies one's own. — Marianne Wiggins

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context. — Marianne Wiggins

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes. — Marianne Wiggins

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

You speak your mind, don't you ... ? A rare find in a woman. — Marianne Wiggins

It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible. — Marianne Wiggins

I think what you can't see is always what you should be frightened of. — Marianne Wiggins

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 stranger. — Marianne Wiggins

I will never turn to God. — Marianne Wiggins

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car. — Marianne Wiggins