Top 31 Quotes by 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.

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 teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

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

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

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.