“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”
“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
“Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.”
“Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.”
“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
“I can write better than anyone who can write faster.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”
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