Marguerite Young Quotes

Just as I do not want my students to imitate my style, I admire authors who write differently from me. Lewis and Dreiser didn't try to write in a poetic style. - Marguerite Young

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

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

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

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

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

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

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