Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North. Rebecca Harding Davis
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below. Rebecca Harding Davis
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. Rebecca Harding Davis
North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him. Rebecca Harding Davis
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. Rebecca Harding Davis
When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it. Diane Mott Davidson
The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?' Diane Mott Davidson
I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing. Diane Mott Davidson
The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable. Diane Mott Davidson
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore. Diane Mott Davidson
One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook. Diane Mott Davidson
I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books. Diane Mott Davidson
After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime. Diane Mott Davidson
What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories. Diane Mott Davidson
In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime. Diane Mott Davidson
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' Diane Mott Davidson