Book Quote by Rex Stout

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

— Rex Stout

A lot of cookbooks also have incredible food writing, even though I feel like a lot of cookbook authors don't necessarily identify with being…

— Michelle Zauner

I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks.

— Paul Wahlberg

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

— Grant Achatz

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.

— Padma Lakshmi

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and…

— Mary Lavin

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

When I first started writing cookbooks, I remember thinking to myself, what makes me think I can write a cookbook? There are these great…

— Ina Garten

Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to…

— Walter Moers

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

— Alice B. Toklas

Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a…

— Ruskin Bond

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

— Christopher Walken