Anthony Bourdain Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Book, Kids

  "Anthony Bourdain swears he's a nerdy fanboy". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. June 28, 2012.

• There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who can deal with being recognized by strangers and if that's tolerable or pleasing to you, and not immediately terrifying, that's not normal either.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Writing, Normal

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Writing, Trying

• I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Obnoxious, Cooks

  "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

• When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Secret, Usual

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

• I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Guy, Things I Love

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. May 13, 2013.

• I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Teacher, Book, People

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

• When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Father, Book, Oysters

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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