A Quote by Cheryl Mendelson

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Cheryl Mendelson

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Congenial Cookbooks Getting Liked Love Myself Novels Person Self Love Some Tried

Quote Author

Cheryl Mendelson
Novelist

I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever cook out of cookbooks. I like cookbooks for the commentary or the pictures or the history.

Christina Tosi

I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

Gwyneth Paltrow

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

Wolfgang Puck

I'm quite happy with something foodie or cookbooks - I love cookbooks.

Dave Myers

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Anthony Hopkins

I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.

Trisha Yearwood

I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work - some kind of honest labor.

Bill Cobbs

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Drew Barrymore

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

Alexei Sayle

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

Rex Stout

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.

Paul Auster

I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.

Sarah Waters

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

Ina Garten

My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.