"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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Marianne Wiggins

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“We like t'believe that everything's got an explanation...that our years on this earth make a safe kinda sense. We build ourselves up with explantions and rationalizations t'make us nice and comfortable--an' some people manage t'get through their lives without ever having to question any of it. But I think most of us have learned that...just when we least expect it...something comes droppin' down out o' the heavens...that blows all our comfortable ideas right t'pieces.”
“I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.”
“All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.”
“When it comes to the skin, there are two possible ways to tighten it up: surgery, or develop the muscle underneath! It is like blowing up a balloon underneath some wrinkly sheets. It eventually pulls them tight!”

Source : "Get Fit for 2013: Chris Powell Answers 'GMA' Viewers' Questions". "Good Morning America", abcnews.go.com. January 4, 2013.
“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”

Source : "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.
“Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.”
“As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.”
“What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?”

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