Ivan Doig quotes

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

Source : Ivan Doig (2007). “The Whistling Season”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Childhood Quotes #Soul Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.”
-- Ivan Doig

Source : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

#Stars Quotes #Space Quotes #Done Quotes

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

Source : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

#World Quotes #Voyages Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“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

#Believe Quotes #Biblical Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“Life is mostly freehand.”
-- Ivan Doig

Source : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

#Life Is Quotes

“The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.”
-- Ivan Doig

#Love Is Quotes #Contradictory Quotes #Subjects Quotes

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

Source : Ivan Doig (2009). “The Eleventh Man”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Soldier Quotes #Written Word Quotes

“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”
-- Ivan Doig

Source : Ivan Doig (2016). “Heart Earth: A Memoir”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

“I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.”

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

“Shahid Kapoor is my childhood crush”

“There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.”

“But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.”

“I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise”

“You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.”

“I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music”

“It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.”

Source : "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.

“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”