I like to make pies. That's kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.

- Morgan Saylor

Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.

- Yotam Ottolenghi

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

- Willem Dafoe

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

- Tina Fey

I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.

- Taylor Swift

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

- Simone Schwarz-Bart

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

- Sandra Lee

The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

- Rosecrans Baldwin

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

- Nicola Formichetti

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

- Amanda Eliasch

Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.

- Marie Rutkoski

I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

- Karen Gillan

Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.

- Karen Bender

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

- Jim Davis

'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.

- Jane Pauley

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

- Henry David Thoreau

I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits on my tummy, causing my middle child Esme to ask if we are having a fourth baby. Rude!

- Alicia Coppola