In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done -… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My mode as a writer is to layer different perspectives: the scientific, the philosophical, the political, the journalistic. When you layer them,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
