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.
From Marguerite Young
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.
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 don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
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