Marguerite Young Quotes

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.

- Marguerite Young

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I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what you write, it doesn't really make any difference. I'm not speaking of realistic novels now, but of the pseudo-poetic novel or short story.

- Marguerite Young

Life has no beginning, middle or end. - Marguerite Young

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. - Marguerite Young