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" One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are. "

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" The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does. "

" I think that readers believe that a writer becomes friends with the people he interviews and writes about - and I think there are some writers who do that - but that hasn't happened to me. I do think it's dangerous because then you write the article to please them, which is a terrible error. "

" I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period. "

" 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. "

" I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends. "

" The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs. "

" I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I'm just a food person. "

" One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with. "

" Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken. "

" I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right. "

" If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. "

" I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don't do anything. I just sort of have lunch - all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece. "

" All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?' "

" Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them. "

" E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know. "

" The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back. "

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" My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else. "

" I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food. "

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" When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. "