Creation Quote by Mary H.K. Choi

“After Bailey came Samuel Johnson, His Cantankerousness. Son of a London bookseller, a university dropout, afflicted with depression and what modern doctors think was…

— Kory Stamper

Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading,…

— Richelle Mead

“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced, precise, and…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart from that,…

— James Hynes

“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.”

— Ken Scott

Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace…

— Charles Darwin

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“On an average trip he brought two physics books, a few philosophy books, several volumes of poetry, and one thesaurus”

— Amanda Gefter

“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert Frost was…

— Dana Gioia

“PREFACE TO THE 1832 EDITION At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of the author,…

— Victor Hugo

“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

— William Faulkner