“4657. The more Cooks, the worse Broth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better.”
Interview with Herbert Mitgang, "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles," The New York Times, (22 April 1984) http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-puzzles.html
Context: In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.
“What, no more? Tell the cook we require ten more courses.”
In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China, Upton Close, 2007, READ BOOKS, 272, 1-4067-1675-8, 440, 2010-06-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=DpQa22PJutwC&dq=arab+mercenaries+china&q=They+have+not+enjoyed+the+educational+and+political+privileges+of+the+Han+chinese%2C+and+they+are+in+many+respects+primitive#v=snippet&q=What%2C%20no%20more%3F%20Tell%20the%20cook%20&f=false,
Variant: Tell the cook, that we will either have ten more courses or the crows will have him.
“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.”
"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
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discussing her interest in both pastry and savory cooking
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