Marguerite Young Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.”

“A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.”

“All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.”

“The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.”

“Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.”

“I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.”

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