Marguerite Young Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.”

“I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.”

“All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.”

“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.”

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

“I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.”

“I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.”

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

“If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.”