Quotes About Writing

If I'm walking along the street, ideas come. Ideas about things that I'm interested in. I've jotted them down in the past on bits of paper and then, more recently, on apps in my phone. I've always written poetry since I was a kid.

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.

When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'

I'm a great reviser. I do these reckless drafts just to get the lay of the land.

I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.

I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

I recognise the pure gold that runs in Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin's work for 'Outnumbered' on TV. And on radio, I really enjoy John Finnemore.

My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.