Cooks Quote by Barbara Pym

Too many cooks spoil the broth

— Jane Austen

“Writing a novel is like making soup. The base is a broth we make up wholesale—for instance, I have one child, not five, and…

— Laurie Frankel

To spoil the food too many cooks are not required, one is enough.

— Adhir Amadavadi

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

— Doris Lessing

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure…

— Vikram Seth

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is…

— Lilith Saintcrow

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better…

— Neil Gaiman

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

— Rocco DiSpirito

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very…

— John Irving

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche