All kinds Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

— Iris Murdoch

“His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth…

— Charles Dickens

“Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it speaks of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

— Henry David Thoreau

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

— Antonia Fraser

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

— Alain de Botton

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting…

— Jodi Picoult

If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

— Rachel Kushner