Care Quote by Jack Vance

“A chef’s magic is his ingredients, how he can substitute one for another, then break with convention by changing it all around again without…

— Karl Wiggins

“I'm only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating them, and…

— Cornelia Funke

“But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.”

— Susanna Clarke

“Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician and the…

— Plato

“Chefs are magicians in white, accomplished at slight of hand.”

— Kathleen Flinn

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

— Doris Lessing

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

— Benjamin Franklin

“The proper relationship of a writer to his or her own life is similar to a cook with a cupboard. What the cook takes…

— Lorrie Moore

“Writers and magicians do essentially the same thing, they create worlds with words and will.”

— James L. Wilber

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

— Sue Grafton

“No one became a great cook just by reading the recipes.”

— Amit Kalantri

“To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana