Ruth Reichl Quotes

I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well.

Ruth Reichl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1948

Topics

ExperienceMemoryReadingThinkYou

If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

Jim Parrack

ThinkActorPastorWouldI Think

One must not confuse the fight against corruption with the persecution of the rich or wealthy families.

Joao Lourenco

FightRichCorruptionAgainstMust

I remember that I started playing brass - not so much because I had a calling but because I thought it looked cool.

Max Martin

CoolThoughtRememberPlayingMuch

Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?

Sugata Mitra

JobCareYouTableGoWhy

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

Simon Baker

WorkTimeDoingYouRepetitionDown

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

Roberta Williams

WomenTodayNobodyWantMoreOut

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

Don Nickles

LeadershipFreedomWorldTalkingYou

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Denise Mina

CrimeWittyRealBeingScotland

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

Deborah Sampson

I AmPathsDoneWillCallError

When I wrote 'The Rozabal Line,' I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed 'The Rozabal Line' as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work.

Ashwin Sanghi

WorkLoveBestFirstAlwaysLine

People like to pretend that all women have the same experience or that all gay people have the same experience. But everyone's life is different, and everyone's point of view is valid.

Phoebe Robinson

LifeWomenExperiencePeopleView

I was a major Anglophile. My brothers and I were raised knowing both languages, French and English. My dad was born in Austria, educated in Britain, and then went back to France. My mom was born in England, but raised in Egypt and Malaysia. We were a globetrotter family.

Sebastian Roche

FamilyMomBackBornEgyptKnowing

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