More - Marguerite Young Quotes

The asexual angel, neither male nor female... unable to live without her mask of illusions... showed herself to be the denuded character every person would be if confronted with the loss of their illusions as she was.

Marguerite Young

 Angels

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

 Students

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

 Students

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

 American Author

I like Gertrude Stein, and spent two weeks with her at the University of Chicago.

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.

Marguerite Young

 American Author Philosophy

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

 American Author

I had read the histories of mountain climbers, of suffragette captains, of travelers to the Middle East... all the ladies who went to the Middle East. I'd like to go myself. I didn't invent anything in my book. I didn't need to.

Marguerite Young

 

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

Marguerite Young

 American Author

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

Marguerite Young

 American Author