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.

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.

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.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.