Marguerite Young Quotes

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
Marguerite Young

Person, Understand, Leader

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

Beauty, End, Single

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
Marguerite Young

Good, Book, Writing

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
Marguerite Young

Sleep, Night, After

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

Death, Wedding, After

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
Marguerite Young

May, Universe, Flaw

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
Marguerite Young

Book, Beginning, Books

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
Marguerite Young

Age, Young, Old

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
Marguerite Young

Love, Him, Speak

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

Work, Human, Lost

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Marguerite Young

Strong, Political, Conscience

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

Time, Fun, Help

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
Marguerite Young

Single, Knew, Invented

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

Woman, Person, Thought

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
Marguerite Young

Thoughts, Others, Hand

I think there is a rage against women. I've 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

Time, Women, Writing

I would never write realistic prose. I don't 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

Book, Real, Try

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
Marguerite Young

Lost, Leader, Cause

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
Marguerite Young

Poetry, Actually, Influenced

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Marguerite Young

Poetry, Real, Talent

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
Marguerite Young

Career, Willing, Publishing

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
Marguerite Young

Reality, Leader, Idea

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
Marguerite Young

Write, Characters, Obsessed

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

Before, America, Lived

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
Marguerite Young

Bible, Influenced, Saint

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 28, 1908

Died: November 17, 1995

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