“Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous a...” — Simon Schama Quote

“Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous amount of moisture. And there's nothing worse than a braised mushroom, other than a lot of braised mushrooms.”

“The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.”

“The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.”

“Whenever I race in the U.K., the crowd just makes such a massive difference, often between winning and losing.”

“My favorite part of making a movie is to watch it in a crowd of people seeing it for the first time.”

“The rock-band crowd is so different from any other crowd. Because when they are there to see they band, they there to see they band.”