Marianne Wiggins Quotes

Marianne Wiggins (born September 8, 1947) is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, Wiggins writes with "a bold intelligence and an ear for hidden comedy." She has won a Whiting Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2004 for her novel Evidence of Things Unseen

I will never turn to God.

Marianne Wiggins
- God
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.

Marianne Wiggins
- She
- Book
- Friends

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

Marianne Wiggins
- World
- History
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.

Marianne Wiggins
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
- Music
- Writing
- Words
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
- Life
- Why
- Remember
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
- Rock
- Car
- Road
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
- Thoughts
- Canvas