Marianne Wiggins — American Author born on September 08, 1947,

Marianne Wiggins is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won a Whiting Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize... (wikipedia)

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'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.
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 will never turn to God.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.