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Marguerite Young

American Author

Born: Aug 28, 1908

Died: Nov 17, 1995

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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. Marguerite Young

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. Marguerite Young

Death Me Strange Lawyer Once Married Case Wedding Never Had He Knew Opened Discovered Trunk After Who Her

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

Book Beginning Books One Book Written Been

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

Good Book Writing Big About Having More Small Writer Good Writer Pieces Than Cannot Mean Social Avoid Consciousness

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

Women Money First Had American Award Ever Received University Association

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. Marguerite Young

Me Women Writing Sometimes Men Destroy Some Seemed Cruel Hysterical Name Know Also Were Been Male Reviewers Reviews Different Want Who Even Suffered Tone

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. Marguerite Young

You Before Chaplin Characters Charlie Charlie Chaplin About Annie Know Most America James Anything Little Fantastic Who Lived Ever Orphan

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me. Marguerite Young

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. Marguerite Young

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. Marguerite Young

More Poetry Mormons Joseph Smith Am Than Influenced Much Actually

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

Age Old Will Young Old Age Poets Dead Sure

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