Ivan Doig Quotes

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People say they want to be writers. I always say, can you stand to be by yourself, your own boss? And there are the chores to be done of the research, of the thinking, of mining your imagination all the time, of creating these characters and associations. Not everyone can do it.

Ivan Doig
This book has gotten some winks of attention in New York City, which didn't happen before I landed on the best-seller list. It doesn't help the writing, which is still day by day, word by word. The pressure is always the same, and it's always mine on myself. I'm still doing so many words a day, so many days a week, and making those words the best I can find.

Ivan Doig
I started off as a journalist and nonfiction writer and now I'm working on my 13th novel. My imagination was freed up with the success of This House of Sky and other nonfiction books that carried me along to write a novel whenever I wanted.

Ivan Doig
There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

Ivan Doig
One thing about being a novelist, you never know what you're going to go back and draw on.

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The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

Ivan Doig
Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

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My folks and grandparents were ranch hands and cooks. I come from the lariat proletariat, the working class point of view.

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I don't really know how I would retire. Writing is how I want to spend my time. I can't imagine not doing it.

Ivan Doig
Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

Ivan Doig
Evidently Butte and its rough and troubled times in 1921 are resonating with reviewers seeing rough times now, the corporate muscle power, the runaway power of the corporate ownerships. That resonates a lot with people having seen some of the Wall Street misbehavior of current times.

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It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

Ivan Doig