“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.” —John Edgar Wideman from http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

“A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.”
― M.F.K. Fisher from http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1408429.M_F_K_Fisher

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.”

– Virginia Wolf from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/best-food-quotes_n_1937214.html

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.” —Paul Rudnick