Jamie Oliver's Quotes

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

I hate making TV documentaries.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.

I've cooked just about everything really.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

My life is really so much based in England.

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

We opened a shop in Rotherham which does free demonstrations every day, six days a week and it's been very popular.

We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.

I think 'Voldemort' is definitely the scariest villain.

I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them on. I have a pair of Jimmy Choo flats I would marry, if I could.

I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.

I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being this restorative force. I write about them because that's what I think about in my own life.

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.

I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.