The phrase "affection to write" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express a fondness or love for writing, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "Her affection to write was evident in the countless journals she kept throughout her life."
Alternatives: "love for writing" or "passion for writing".
Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe said, 'The more I know, the fewer cups I have to break.' And that's more to the point: the biographer who permits himself to know as much as can be known is more apt to write with precision, empathy, affection and true understanding".
But it takes courage to stay within school bounds for a whole novel - and more than courage, in 2004, to write with nuance and affection about an all-male boarding school, one whose Anglophilia (dorms, floor wax, knitted woollen ties) was studiedly old-fashioned even 40 years ago.
However, Seward continued to write about Sneyd long after her death, extolling Sneyd's beauty and their affection and friendship.
Over one phrase in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence referring to George III's misdeeds — "These facts have given the last stab to agonized affection" — I wrote, compressing what Wills said, "not froth but central pt of appeal".
To meet her family's charge that he had practiced magic to win her affection, he wrote the Apologia ("Defense"), the major source for his biography.
"So many have cleaved to their libraries with so fond an affection," Porter writes, "and have learned to conceive of them as parts of themselves, as in a sense visible and tangible embodiments of their own being".
Although he confesses to a powerful affection for writing pastiche — songs that intentionally evoke previous styles of music — Mr. Sondheim's later works more potently illustrate the continual reach of his musical and lyrical imagination.
Show affection to your dog.
Show affection to your zebra.
God created physical affection to be good.
