Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Occupation alone is happiness.

Khalil Gibran

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

Manuel Puig

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

David Riesman

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Khaled Mashaal

As long as we are under occupation then resistance is our right.

Khaled Meshal

As long as we are under occupation then it is our right to resist.

W. S. Gilbert

A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor!

Abdul Salam

The results of the referendum were not surprising as the whole process is supervised and protected by the US occupation forces,

Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Mohsin Hamid

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Philipp Meyer

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Peter Carey

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.