American - Author | August 28, 1908 - November 17, 1995
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
Marguerite Young
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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
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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.
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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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.
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
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