Laura Esquivel Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Laura Esquivel:

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

Laura Esquivel

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

Laura Esquivel

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

Laura Esquivel

As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

Laura Esquivel

You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.

Laura Esquivel

The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

Laura Esquivel

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

Laura Esquivel

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

Laura Esquivel

It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

Laura Esquivel

What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

Laura Esquivel

Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.

Laura Esquivel

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

Laura Esquivel

When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'

Laura Esquivel

We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

Laura Esquivel

I like vibrant colors.

Laura Esquivel

If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.

Laura Esquivel

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

Laura Esquivel