The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
More Quotes from Marguerite Young:
I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.Marguerite Young
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
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
Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
Marguerite Young
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
Marguerite Young
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
Marguerite Young
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