Quotes by Marguerite Young

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.

Book

Mean

Writing

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.

Ghouls

Gowns

Wedding

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

Flawed

Flaws

May

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.

Beauty

Journey

Writing

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

Book

Has Beens

Written

Dreiser… I love… and almost wouldn’t speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

Love

Speak

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.

Believe

Desire

Obsession

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

Believe

Political

Strong

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

Fun

Time

Years

I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one’s own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don’t find it, but it’s there.

Flower

People

Personality

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America

Association

Augustine

Awards

Beauty

Believe

Book

Causes

Character

Community

Desire

Devotion

Fate

Flawed

Flaws

Flower

Fun

Ghouls

Gowns

Has Beens

Ideas

Journey

Leader

Littles

Long

Love

May

Mean

Money

Names

Night

Obsession

Paradise

People

Personality

Philosophy

Poetic

Political

Real

Realism

Reality

Realizing

Saint

Sleep

Speak

Strong

Talent

Time

Wedding

Women

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Quotes by Marguerite Young

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.

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

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.

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

Dreiser… I love… and almost wouldn’t speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

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.

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

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

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