Life Quote by Lorrie Moore

“I grew up thinking that writer and secretary were the same, except that a writer usually smelled of cocktails and came more often to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough.”

— Kishore Bansal

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.”

— Ksenia Anske

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

— Grant Achatz

“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.”

— Toni Morrison

“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Sometimes authors treat their books are burgers. More they want to sell, more spices they put in.”

— Sudhir Mittalittal

“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.”

— Nandi Berry

“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense…

— Jeanette Winterson

“... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.”

— Mike Bryan

“Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with…

— Emma Shortt