Top 31 Quotes by Marguerite Young

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.