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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

Consciousness

Writer

Writing

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

Marguerite Young

Midnight

Sleep

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

Marguerite Young

Dream

Being

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

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

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

Life has no beginning, middle or end.

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

Marguerite Young

Bible

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

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

America

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

Marguerite Young

Obsessions

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

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

Poetry

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

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Marguerite Young

Leader

Illusion