Quote of the week: January roundup

Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
Edward Albee

The process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader’s mind.
Elizabeth Bowen, 1899 – 1973

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire, 1694 – 1778

Poetry is where the language is renewed.
Margaret Atwood