Quotes by Marguerite Young

About Marguerite Young:

Marguerite Vivian Young is best known for her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. In her later years, she was known for teaching creative writing and as a mentor to young authors. "She was a respected literary figure as well as a cherished Greenwich Village eccentric."
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

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

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

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

Marguerite Young

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

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Author Bio

  • NameMarguerite Young
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornAugust 28, 1908
  • DiedNovember 17, 1995
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist
  • WorksMiss MacIntosh, My Darling
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship