#ok

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows. ↗

— Alton Brown

#cookbook #cooking #dark #day #eat

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#books #come #ideas #me #through

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer. ↗

— Bryan Brown

#book #catch #down #i #just

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. ↗

— Chester Brown

#because #despite #doing #done #enjoyed

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good. ↗

— Eric Brown

#big #break #editor #good #hard

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over. ↗

— Eric Brown

#be nice #could #course #creative #i

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#blossom #breathed #breezes #eye #fragrance

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#eyes #figures #heaven #herbs #lashes

I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#hard #high #i #look #nominee

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse. ↗

— Blake Shelton

#better #book #life #my life #open