Construction work Quote by David Mitchell

“DEAD FLIES ON THE SILLS OF sunny windows, weeds along the pathway, the kitchen empty. The house was melancholy, deceiving; it was like a…

— James Salter

“And then there is the waiter. Not pathetic-decidedly not comic. Never making one of those perfectly insignificant remarks which amaze you so coming from…

— Katherine Mansfield

“It is impossible to say how many dinners Drawlight was invited to sit down to that day - and it is fortunate that he…

— Susanna Clarke

Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man…

— Rose Macaulay

“In a frenetic whirlwind we chop and dice and mince, turning anything we can think of into a possible pizza topping, and packing them…

— Stacey Ballis

“Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of loss and…

— James Jones

“In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man in plain…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Everything, including your set of hand-blown green glass dishes with the tiny bubbles and imperfections, little bits of sand, proof they were crafted by…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“We are told not to leave food on the table overnight: it draws the dead.”

— Anita Barrows

“When Pohpoh unlatched the window above the enamel sink, yellow light sliced through the opening, hauling in a cold, fresh morning draught.”

— Shani Mootoo

“My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable…

— Frank Kusy