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Marguerite Young

Marguerite Vivian Young (August 26, 1908 – November 17, 1995) was an American writer and academic. She is best known for her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. In her later years, she was known for teaching creative writing and as a mentor to young authors. "She was a respected literary figure as well as a cherished Greenwich Village eccentric." During her lifetime, Young wrote two books of poetry, two historical studies, one collection of short stories, one novel, and one collection of essays.

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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, Part, People, Personality, Substance

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

Character, Characters, Obsessed, Obsession, Write, Writing

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

Certain, Idea, Ideas, Leader, Reality, Scrutinized

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

Association, Award, Awards, Money, Received, Women

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

Everything, Loss, Themes, Writing, Years

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, Human, Obsession, Search, Utopias

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

Augustine, Has Beens, Influenced, Saint

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.

Born, Fate, Men, Thought, Woman

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

Devotion, Real, Talent, Writers

I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

Hand, Hands, Think, Thinking, Thoughts, Voice

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

Causes, Leader, Paradise, Utopia

Life has no beginning, middle or end.

Beginning, Ends, Life, Middle

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.

Big, Book, Mean, Writing

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

Career, Careers, Publishing, Willing, Years

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

Came, Dream, Pursued

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.

America, Character, James, Littles, Orphan, Riley

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.

Book, Real, Realistic, Style, Surreal, Writing

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

Believe, Conscience, Novel, Political, Strong

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.

Discovered, Ghouls, Gowns, Lawyer, Strange, Wedding

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

Disguise, Examined, Ideas, Mask, People, Reality

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