Best Literary Food Quotes

#1. The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morning
sun. Some yelled and threw sticks, but were slow and didn't bite. Humans were mostly harmless.

Cole Alpaugh

#2. I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

Jean Craighead George

#3. I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.

Bruno Tonioli

#4. It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. 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

#6. Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.

Washington Irving

#7. If I could, I'd take the food and art of Italy, for example, couple it with the quiet, understated personality of France and the orderliness of Germany, the cinematic and literary wit of Britain, and blend it into one utopian, and ultimately dystopian, probably, civilization.

Tsh Oxenreider

#8. There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and politics and public life, while women confine themselves to family and food and personal life.

Annia Ciezadlo

#9. I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.

Sarah Kay

#10. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the

George Orwell

#11. I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

John Kennedy Toole

#12. Italy is only a geographical expression.

Klemens Von Metternich

#13. Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

Adam Sedgwick

#15. These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

William Cowper

#17. A good player can make any guitar sound good.

Mike Bloomfield

#18. We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

Kathryn Joyce

#19. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic

Salvador Dali

#20. In America we saw more food than we had seen in all our lives and we were so happy we rummaged through the dustbins of our souls to retrieve the stained, broken pieces of God.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#21. I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

Paul Cellucci

#22. Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

Joanne Harris

#23. Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power ... it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

Justus Von Liebig

#24. I love you so very much I don't even mind that life made me wait so long to find you. The waiting only made the finding sweeter.

Nancy Reagan

#25. For Thanksgiving, a quote from my book, The Restaurant Reviewer, with deepest thanks for all the bounty:

In the kitchen here ingredients are cherished. This restaurant remembers that food tastes good.

Nao Hauser

#26. Oh, don't hurt me!" cried Tom. "I only want to look at you; you are so handsome.

Charles Kingsley