Books Quote by Jeffery Deaver

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

— Italo Calvino

“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

“What I love about reading cookbooks is that they are "clean pornography" for food addicts such as myself .. and quick and easy reads!”

— Janet Pole

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but…

— Alice Munro

“Think of literary fiction as a meal with intricate scents, flavors, and textures that you can’t recognize unless you chew with your eyes closed.”

— Jessica Bell

It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food…

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot…

— Russell Smith

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they see something…

— Jane Brooke