"Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god."

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The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.

— Bonnie Friedman