Frances Mayes
Educator
1940-04-04
Quotes by Frances Mayes
-
Memory is capricious. I can look back and see decadence, old bigots, the constant racial slurs, the bores, the wild cards, the bighearted, the family album of alcoholics, the saints, the old aunt propped in a chair saying only da-da, the slow-motion suicides, but at four, six, ten, they loomed, powerful, not as types but as themselves. Among them, logic takes wing. (pg. 31)
Read quote -
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
Read quote -
There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.
Read quote -
You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.
Read quote -
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
Read quote -
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
Read quote -
There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.
Read quote -
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
Read quote -
You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.
Read quote -
Memory is capricious. I can look back and see decadence, old bigots, the constant racial slurs, the bores, the wild cards, the bighearted, the family album of alcoholics, the saints, the old aunt propped in a chair saying only da-da, the slow-motion suicides, but at four, six, ten, they loomed, powerful, not as types but as themselves. Among them, logic takes wing. (pg. 31)
Read quote -
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
Read quote -
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
Read quote -
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
Read quote -
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
Read quote -
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
Read quote