memoir quotes

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, ‚Why don’t you write your autobiography?‘

All through my writing life, I’ve had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.