Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
Marguerite YoungI would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
Marguerite YoungI 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.
Marguerite YoungI 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.
Marguerite Young