Affair Quote by Mavis Gallant Download Open image “Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.” — Mavis Gallant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affair Love Love affair Writing
Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
“Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.” — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“Converts have it soft," said Mary. "They come to it late, without ever having had the Devil under the bed. They sail in and… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“If your life isn't exactly the way you want it to be by the time you are forty-five," said Walter's father, whom he admired,… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue".” — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.” — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter… — Michael Atherton Copy Share Image
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