Affair Quote by Rebecca Mead Download Open image “My longest love affair: with a book.” — Rebecca Mead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affair Book Books Inspirational Love Love affair
“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
“Despite all of my moaning and groaning about the romantic disasters that continued to befall me, I knew if I were ever forced to… — Joyce Elbert Copy Share Image
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“In honor of the marriage that worked, I include in this collection a sickeningly slick love story from The Ladies’ Home Journal, God help… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. — E. L. James Copy Share Image
“When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
I would have thought that one of the things one should learn from college is that nothing is guaranteed. Even if you study something… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that. — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“I could understand the impulse to make the novel more accessible. I want as many people as possible to read The Mill on the… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“...there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one’s… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless.… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a… — Rebecca Mead 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
