Nigella Lawson Quotes about Literature

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.