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

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

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

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

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

Life has no beginning, middle or end.
Marguerite Young

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

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Marguerite Young

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

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
Marguerite Young

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
Marguerite Young