Diane Mott Davidson Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. I like cream cheese in just about anything.

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#5. 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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#6. Sometimes you have to fight fire with a blowtorch

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

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#8. When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

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#9. What a gift to have a son.

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

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#13. 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?'

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#14. 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.

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

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

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#17. After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

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

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

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