109 Quotes by M. F. K. Fisher

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea ...

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.

I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.