Anne M. Mulcahy Quotes

My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and television and graphic novels is all very different. So I've never had the feeling of, 'Oh, you have to do this one thing.'

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.