Marianne Wiggins Quotes

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be moments where I'll just kind of throw a look off to the side as if I'm talking to one of the characters. It's always been something that I've had with me since I was a little kid.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

I have a visual imagination.

I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.

To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.