Frances Mayes said this quote

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

~ Frances Mayes

You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.

~ Frances Mayes

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

~ Frances Mayes

There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.

~ Frances Mayes