Book Quote by Anne Tyler Download Open image ““Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?”” — Anne Tyler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Marriage Separation Wife
“When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Wives' at these events had limited choices: either they could stay by their husbands' sides to coach them on other guests' names and remind… — Anne Korkeakivi Copy Share Image
“Courtship had a new rule book. Somewhere. She’d never read it and doubted anyone else in her generation had either.” — Carrie Lomax Copy Share Image
“There are some wives who require but a sentence. There are some who require a book. You, Miss Clarke, would require volumes.” — Sally Gunning Copy Share Image
“I’d read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world’s strangest trip, and as I climbed into bed,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two hours away...” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing life) anyone… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“She lay on the bed to read a novel; she wanted to forget that bitter conversation and be carried along by the plot, but… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“You wake in the morning, you’re feeling fine, but all at once you think, “Something’s not right. Something’s off somewhere; what is it?” And… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere:… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
