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8 quotes by Marianne Wiggins

Marianne Wiggins (born September 8, 1947) is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won the Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.
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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.

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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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I will never turn to God.

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I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

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