225 Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.

People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind me of my childhood.' We have a darker and more complex relationship to food.

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

For some reason, some kids have a fear of food. Some adults do, too. The best cure for that is to try a lot of different kinds of things. The more you try, the more experiences you have.

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

'Cod' was a great story. It let me talk about the environment without putting people to sleep.

Dominicans, Nicaraguans, and even the already highly skilled Cubans greatly improved their baseball skills when occupied by U.S. troops. The only acceptable resistance to a hated American presence was to try to beat them in baseball games.

Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose.