As she writes in her introduction: "My ambivalence is persistent and real.

"Anyone can cook, and most everyone should," Bittman writes in his introduction.

"I wanted to put my emotional response to music into paintings," he writes in his introduction.

I know now," Kendall writes in her introduction, "that such an event comes without warning.

"Bad President," the authors write in their introduction, isn't exactly a joke.

They write in their introduction: "As the list of subjects for this book expanded, we developed ground rules.

"It would be impudent to tell intelligent, grown up people how to think," he wrote in this book's introduction.

He writes in his introduction to the collection, 'Anno didn't need death to be brilliant.

"I wanted only to write what I knew to be true," she wrote in the book's introduction.

"This book is the story of my lifelong romance with the American popular song," he writes in his introduction.