Anthology Quote by Rebecca West

“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your…

— T.C. Boyle

I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“A young English couple was visiting with me one summer after I had been composting humanure for about six years. One evening, as dinner…

— Joseph C. Jenkins

“Food that good deserved undisturbed digestion”

— Chloe Neill

“When it comes to food, we are, in essence, following an eating script that has been written into the circuits of our brains.”

— David Kessler

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't care about…

— Michael Pollan

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature.…

— Herbert M. Shelton

“We feign disinterest and laugh, and creep into the kitchen some nights, a triangle of light spilled on the floor form the fridge, shoveling…

— Marya Hornbacher

“On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation.…

— Margaret Atwood

“Chewing is fun [on hillbilly heroin]. Who knew it could ever be so much work, though? I’m reasonably sure I’ve been rolling the same…

— Gordon Highland

“It is said that real human nature reveals itself under extreme conditions. As I starved in prison, I realizes that eating was one of…

— Andy Raskin