Description Quote by John Steinbeck

“I see the whole thing popping and parenthesizing in every direction, the story of that house and that kitchen.”

— Jack Kerouac

“Kitchens have a funny way of forcing people, as different as they may be, to get along.”

— Dalia Jurgensen

“I have a theory that all kitchens, if sufficiently occupied and loved, grow their own appliances.”

— Kerry Greenwood

“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind.…

— Lauren Wolk

“He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for…

— Sorin Suciu

“Over the years, the kitchens I grew up in and around continued to draw me in, like a moth to a flame, as though…

— Sasha Martin

“She had practically taken ownership of his kitchen and arguing with her over it only left him with a raging headache. She could cook,…

— Bethany-Kris

“I soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“imaginative cook, and her experiments weren’t always edible. I was surprised, and sad, that he seemed to remember that far back. “Steak and potatoes,”…

— Stephenie Meyer

“The story rolls along like drumbeats from house to house.”

— Terry Farish

“This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o