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I want to write the world’s worst cookbook, which I’ll title: “The World’s Worst Cookbook.” It’ll feature recipes from “Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich” (peanut butter, jelly, and bread), to “Roasted Roadkill and Hitchhiker’s Surprise” (this recipe is a secret concoction handed down from my great grandfather to my grandfather, who told it to my dad just before he ran him over).



Jarod Kintz


#cooking #food #hitchhiker #recipes #roadkill

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.


Brenda Ueland


#another #beads #byron #child #feel

You have to taste a culture to understand it.


Deborah Cater


#travel #travel-writing #food

The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that - not very appetizing - food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries.


Vladimir Nabokov


#reader #writer #writing #food

She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable.


Sándor Márai


#fear #secrets #sharing-secrets #writing #life

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.


Robert W. Service


#forgiveness

It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.


Thornton Wilder


#wounding #writing #forgiveness

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.


Katerina Stoykova Klemer


#goal #self-improvement #ultimate #writing #forgiveness

Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.


Blaise Pascal


#forgiveness

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.


Dennis R. Miller


#lust #miracles #murder #power #revenge






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