age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
Marguerite YourcenarI could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty or forty years. But perhaps this is true of most writersโthe emotional storage is done very early on.
Marguerite Yourcenarthe press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.
Marguerite YourcenarOur true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.
Marguerite Yourcenar