Sophie Dahl

I was very lucky that I didn't end up a basket case.

— Sophie Dahl

I certainly wouldn't feel safe telling people I was writer.

— Sophie Dahl

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

— Sophie Dahl

I think it would be a bit miserable going out with somebody who was totally uninterested in food.

— Sophie Dahl

My cooking is incredibly haphazard, but I've never pretended it was anything else.

— Sophie Dahl

When I was a child, I named my rabbit Pancake and my guinea pig Maple Syrup.

— Sophie Dahl

I've spent a great deal of my life one way or another talking about food or eating food.

— Sophie Dahl

I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.

— Sophie Dahl

I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.

— Sophie Dahl

I'm doing what I've always wanted to do: being a mum, writing, living in the country, having a happy time.

— Sophie Dahl

So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they…

— Sophie Dahl

I don't feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of my grandfather; if I did, I'd be mad. I'm as…

— Sophie Dahl

I can't eat at all when I get sad; all I want is soup and easy-to-swallow baby food and, of all things,…

— Sophie Dahl

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

— Sophie Dahl

At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy…

— Sophie Dahl

Feminism is so pertinent - it affects all of us. As a woman you have an instinct to question sexual politics, we…

— Sophie Dahl

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

— Sophie Dahl

I'm always either listening to 'Hamilton,' which makes me cry, or Giggs, who makes me laugh.

— Sophie Dahl

I always had boyfriends, whether I was skinnier or rounder.

— Sophie Dahl

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

— Sophie Dahl

I wish my grandparents were around to see my children.

— Sophie Dahl

Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

— Sophie Dahl

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

— Sophie Dahl

I have no complaints about my childhood whatsoever.

— Sophie Dahl

It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or…

— Sophie Dahl

I don't want to deride London because I have such a huge affection for it, but New York lets you move on…

— Sophie Dahl

I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.

— Sophie Dahl

I didn't like being a model. It feels weird to stand in your knickers in front of people you aren't married to.

— Sophie Dahl

My modeling career was really just a long accident - one that happened to coincide with my chocolate-cake phase.

— Sophie Dahl

A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.

— Sophie Dahl

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in…

— Sophie Dahl

When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

— Sophie Dahl

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a…

— Sophie Dahl

When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories…

— Sophie Dahl

When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.

— Sophie Dahl

I still don't know what the 'ideal' woman is. Waifs will always be in demand because it's a lot easier to design…

— Sophie Dahl

I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not…

— Sophie Dahl

There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me…

— Sophie Dahl

I love anchovies in sauces, but on their own, they're repellent: their lurid pink bodies spook me out.

— Sophie Dahl

I like routine, and cooking became a ritual when I was modelling in New York. My life was nomadic, so making supper…

— Sophie Dahl