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“As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.”
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“Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.”
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“I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.”
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“People will always show their true selves in the end.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.”
Source : Anna Thomas (2009). “Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
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“When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.”
Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
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“Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.”
Source : "Matthea Harvey, author of 'Modern Life'". Interview with Wendy Vardaman, www.versewisconsin.org.
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“I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.”
