Marguerite Young Quotes
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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.
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I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
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When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl
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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.
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If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
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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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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.
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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
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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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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
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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.
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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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Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
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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.
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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.
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I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.
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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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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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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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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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All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
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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.
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I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
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All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
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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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we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.
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Life has no beginning, middle or end.
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Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
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