Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a myster…

- Frances Mayes

One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many …

- Frances Mayes

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

- Frances Mayes

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?

- Frances Mayes

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

- Frances Mayes

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

- Frances Mayes

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

- Frances Mayes

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

- Frances Mayes

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

- Frances Mayes