Top 31 Quotes by Marguerite Young

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.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

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.

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

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.

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.