M. F. K. Fisher - Hunger Quotes

6 Sourced Quotes

View all M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine 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
I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

M. F. K. Fisher
Like most humans, I am hungry... 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.

M. F. K. Fisher
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.

M. F. K. Fisher
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
Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.

M. F. K. Fisher