English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every author has to eventually write a food book.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.
I was so inspired by Beverly Cleary's funny and wonderful books.
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher.