Diane Mott Davidson Quotes

When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.

You can't buy what you want. It all comes as a gift.

The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable.

...I had deliberately let the relationship with Schulz wane until there was little left. We had been like the hot chocolate they sell at ski resorts. For your buck fifty, a machine first spews dark, thick syrup into a cup. This liquid gradually turns to a mixture of chocolate and hot water. Soon there is just a stream of hot water, and in a moment, drops. You wish the chocolate part would go on gushing forever, but it doesn't.

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

What a gift to have a son.

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California ... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

In a deep sexy voice, she said Windows don't turn me on.
I raised an eyebrow at her, Mac user?

Anything tastes good when you wash it down with chocolate.