Marianne Wiggins Quotes
What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.
I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.
You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.
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.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.
...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.
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.
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.
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
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.
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.
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.