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Marguerite Young Quotes


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

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

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.

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

Life has no beginning, middle or end.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

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

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

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.

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