Top 34 Quotes by Erin McKean

About Erin McKean

These are some quotes by American author Erin McKean Editor, who was born in 1971.

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

Erin McKean

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

Erin McKean

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Erin McKean

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