Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Koechner

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Janet Jackson

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Cheryl Mendelson

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Deepak Chopra

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

Benjamin Franklin

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.

Alexandra Fuller

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Alphonsus Liguori

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Albert Camus

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Jean de la Bruyere

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Aaron Sanchez

My family, we are three generations of cookbook writers,

Rick Whittington

no cookbook recipes for deciding where the cycle stands.

Isabel Gillies

Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

Alicia Silverstone

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Michael Symon

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Jan Miller

We think it has been the No. 1-selling cookbook since 1930.

Ina Garten

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Daniel Boulud

There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

Marcus Samuelsson

I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.