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After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.

Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.