Michael Pollan Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Gmos, Done

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

• Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Finding The One, Phrases

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

• My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Atheism, Littles

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

• Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Irony

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing

• That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Taken, Book

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, p.1950, Penguin UK

• I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to write a letter to me about their impressions and what they learned. So, it's incredibly gratifying to hear.

  Michael Pollan

  Teacher, Writing, Class

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

• I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Trying, Ordinary

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

• I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

  Source: leitesculinaria.com

• Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Found, Findings

• There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Self, World

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

• Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Stakes

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

• I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.

  Michael Pollan

  Fun, Writing, Ignorance

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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