Mark Kurlansky Quotes
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You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.
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Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?
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I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.
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I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.
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Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.
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I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
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There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.
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Cheap fish has usually been caught in careless ways.
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I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.
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Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.
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I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.
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The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.
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I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
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You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I'm lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds.
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Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat more than is necessary.
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People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind me of my childhood.' We have a darker and more complex relationship to food.
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In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being 'soft on Basques.'
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I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.
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Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.
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Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.
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People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
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I'm interested in most everything.
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My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line.
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I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because the Grand Banks had closed.