Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

Mary H.K. Choi is a Korean-American author, editor, television and print journalist. She is the author of the young adult novels Emergency Contact and Permanent Record . She is the culture correspondent on Vice News Tonight on HBO and was previously a columnist at Wired and Allure magazines as well as a freelance writer. Wikipedia  

Mary H.K. Choi photo
Mary H.K. Choi: 3   quotes 0   likes

Famous Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

“Sometimes there’s nothing better in the world than talking to another creative person about where you are, because you may feel like you’re floating in outer space a lot of the time.”

On communicating with other like-minded individuals in “Mary H.K. Choi, Author of ‘Emergency Contact’ (Interview)” https://ilymag.com/2018/05/08/mary-h-k-choi-author-of-emergency-contact-interview/ in Ily Magazine (2018 May 8)

“Taking time to color in the people around your main characters truly does a lot of heavy lifting for you in terms of subtext and context because tiny misunderstandings and micro-aggressions or avoidance speaks volumes without requiring so much exposition…”

On portraying different kinds of relationships in her book Emergency Contact in “Interview with Mary H.K. Choi” https://therumpus.net/2018/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-mary-h-k-choi/ in The Rumpus (2018 May 18)

“It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early.”

On trying to achieve your dreams in “Mary H.K. Choi, Author of ‘Emergency Contact’ (Interview)” https://ilymag.com/2018/05/08/mary-h-k-choi-author-of-emergency-contact-interview/ in Ily Magazine (2018 May 8)

Similar authors

Hunter S. Thompson photo
Hunter S. Thompson 268
American journalist and author
Ernest Hemingway photo
Ernest Hemingway 501
American author and journalist
Marek Żukow-Karczewski photo
Marek Żukow-Karczewski 10
Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist
Helen Rowland photo
Helen Rowland 13
American journalist
Jack London photo
Jack London 77
American author, journalist, and social activist
Christopher Morley photo
Christopher Morley 30
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Walt Whitman photo
Walt Whitman 181
American poet, essayist and journalist
George Orwell photo
George Orwell 473
English author and journalist
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Chuck Palahniuk 555
American novelist, essayist
Christopher Paolini photo
Christopher Paolini 166
American author