I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again.

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.

You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.