I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.
Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one. - Frances Mayes
Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.
- Frances Mayes
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
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…
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
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 …
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
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?
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
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. - Frances Mayes
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. - Frances Mayes
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk. - Frances Mayes
The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.
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,… - Frances Mayes
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,…
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