I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

- Colonel Sanders

I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.

- Daniel Humm

I looooove cookbooks. I cook a lot when I'm pregnant.

- Drew Barrymore

I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

I've got around 400 cookbooks.

- Heston Blumenthal

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

- Ina Garten

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

- Maya Angelou

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

- Sandra Lee

I never cook from cookbooks.

- Teresa Heinz

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

- Trisha Yearwood

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

- Vincent Schiavelli