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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 is work and cooking is relaxing.

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.

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.

I love getting up in the morning with nothing else to do except write.

I always have to be writing.

Writing about food is my default.

Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.