Top 31 Quotes by Marguerite Young

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.