Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe.
M. F. K. Fisher
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
M. F. K. Fisher
Age: 83 †
Born: 1908
Born: July 3
Died: 1992
Died: June 22
Author
Diarist
Memoirist
Screenwriter
Writer
Albion
Michigan
M.F.K. Fisher
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher
Honestly
Garden
Fiction
Head
Everything
Writing
Hoe
Believe
Engraved
Pins
More quotes by M. F. K. Fisher
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher
... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.
M. F. K. Fisher
It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.
M. F. K. Fisher
Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.
M. F. K. Fisher
But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
M. F. K. Fisher
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
M. F. K. Fisher
Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.
M. F. K. Fisher
The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.
M. F. K. Fisher
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.
M. F. K. Fisher
It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
M. F. K. Fisher
For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .
M. F. K. Fisher
I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
M. F. K. Fisher
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist
M. F. K. Fisher
I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.
M. F. K. Fisher
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.
M. F. K. Fisher
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher
All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.
M. F. K. Fisher
old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.
M. F. K. Fisher
I like old people when they have aged well.
M. F. K. Fisher
One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.
M. F. K. Fisher