Quotes by Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Alive

Chinese

Poet

After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

Thinking

Water

Way

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?

Color

Notebook

Sky

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

Arbitrary

Different

Would Be

Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

Body

Fruit

Orange

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

Country

People

Together

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

Book

Fun

Writing

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Culture

Moving

Urges

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.

Country

Paris

Rome

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

Cotton

Georgia

Grandfather

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Different

Dream

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Fate

Favorite Words

Fruit

Fun

Georgia

Giving

Grandfather

Home

House

Ideas

Identity

Instinct

Land

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May

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Morning

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Notebook

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Quotes by Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

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.

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

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