Business Quote by Marcel Proust

“Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.”

— Julie Powell

“Why didn’t anyone ever throw reading parties? I would be all over that crap.”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

“Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we’ve made it our meal ticket?”

— Scott Lynch

“There are dinner parties ruined by guests, and there are dinner parties ruined by hosts, and then there are dinner parties when everyone contributes…

— Julie Powell

“What reader or dreamer doesn’t imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and…

— Rawi Hage

“Dinner doesn't start without me.”

— Cayla Kluver

“The lay reader only wanted to have the illusion of understanding and to catch a few buzzwords to throw around at cocktail parties.”

— Richard Feynman

“I don't like crowds of any kind. A dinner party of more than six people is not, for me, a pleasure. I get less…

— Clive Barker

“How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state…

— Barbara Pym

“Life is a food chain, and it's better to be the diner than the dinner.”

— Jim Davis