Marguerite Young
Marguerite Young
Marguerite Vivian Youngwas 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." Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Young was educated at Butler University and the Universities of Chicago and Iowa. She briefly taught at Shortridge High School before embarking on...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1908
CountryUnited States of America
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.
we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
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.
When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
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.
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.
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
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.
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.