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“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.”

— Diane Mott Davidson

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Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

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