Anthony Bourdain Quotes about Writing

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Writing anything is a treason of sorts.

Anthony Bourdain

Writing, Treason

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

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

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 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.

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

[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

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.

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