Top 15 Quotes by Diane Mott Davidson

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

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

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

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

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

I like cream cheese in just about anything.

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.

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.

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