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Marguerite Young Quotes
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I dont mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If its a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. - Marguerite Young Quotes
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. - Marguerite Young Quotes
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe. - Marguerite Young Quotes
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. - Marguerite Young Quotes
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning. - Marguerite Young Quotes
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. - Marguerite Young Quotes
Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldnt speak to anyone who ever attacked him. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I dont believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I think there is a rage against women. Ive come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I would never write realistic prose. I dont like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. - Marguerite Young Quotes
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night. - Marguerite Young Quotes
Im as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, Im much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. - Marguerite Young Quotes
Im quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. - Marguerite Young Quotes
Ive been willing to go for years without publishing. Thats been my career. - Marguerite Young Quotes
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized. - Marguerite Young Quotes
If you dont have obsessions, dont write. my characters are obsessed. - Marguerite Young Quotes
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin. - Marguerite Young Quotes
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you dont blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. - Marguerite Young Quotes
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? - Marguerite Young Quotes
Life has no beginning, middle or end. - Marguerite Young Quotes
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. - Marguerite Young Quotes
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. - Marguerite Young Quotes
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. - Marguerite Young Quotes
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