Michael Pollan Quotes about Writing

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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

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

Michael Pollan Quotes about Writing

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