Anthony Bourdain Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Summer, Jobs, Writing

  "Kitchen Confidential". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2000.

• Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fun, Writing, Artist

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

• [George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Interesting, Worldview

  Source: www.avclub.com

• In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, College, Thinking

• I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Years, Car

• 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'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Done

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Mistake, Stupid

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

• I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Moving, Writing, Interesting

  "Chef Anthony Bourdain". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 18, 2010.

• I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Editing, Trying

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

• 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

• You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Justice, Cameras

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

• It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mistake, Writing, People

• Writing anything is a treason of sorts.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Treason

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing

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