Julie Powell Quotes

You can never have too much, butter.

If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.