I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
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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.Marguerite Young
I see myself as traditional even though I know you see my work as experimental. I don't really consider Sterne, Joyce, and Proust experimental either because the tradition of their writing goes back a long way. Traditional. The Grand Tradition.
Marguerite Young
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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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
Marguerite Young
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
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Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
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