Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
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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
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
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
If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Marguerite Young
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
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