#or

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#avoid #big #book #cannot #consciousness

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before. ↗

— Sean Hayes

#college #did #discover #find #got

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#doomed #either #i #man #myself

I 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 Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#attention #critics #even #ignore #pay

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. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#am #eliot #i #i am #influenced

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. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#america #annie #anything #before #chaplin

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. ↗

— Neil Young

#creation #higher #i #into #just

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more. ↗

— Neil Young

#get #i #i see #more #myself

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them. ↗

— Neil Young

#course #doing #expected #just #kids