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 (1908-1995) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and teacher. She is best known for her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. She wrote several other novels and collections of short stories, including The Lost Traveller (1951), Angel in the Forest (1955), and The Passion of Estelle Jordan (1962). Her writing was often experimental in form and style and often focused on themes of love and death. She also wrote poetry and essays, and was a professor of English at Indiana University and later at University of Houston. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and received numerous other awards and honors.