25 Quotes by Diane Mott Davidson

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

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.

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 write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

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

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

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.