Diane Mott Davidson

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

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.

Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business.

It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.