Beautiful Quote by Erma Bombeck

A lot of cookbooks also have incredible food writing, even though I feel like a lot of cookbook authors don't necessarily identify with being…

— Michelle Zauner

In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I…

— Morris West

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

— Alice B. Toklas

On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.

— Roger Scruton

“Today, of course, popular culture is on a culinary binge; and so much personal writing is now devoted to gazing back upon the kitchen…

— Laura Shapiro

I think that maybe growing up and being dyslexic early on, the visual quality of cookbooks specifically was something very enticing to me.

— Zac Posen

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy…

— Anonymous

As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me.…

— Paul Lynde

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that…

— Patrick Rothfuss

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned…

— Debi Mazar

In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that…

— Barbara Kingsolver