M. F. K. Fisher Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Writing, Reality

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

• People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Struggle, Drinking, Writing

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Writing, Clean, Ends

• When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Writing, Hunger

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

• A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Writing, Cooking, Desks

• There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Food, Communication

• 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

  Believe, Writing, Garden

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