Books Quote by Alberto Manguel

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

— Tom Rath

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant…

— Tom Wolfe

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

— Jonathan Tropper

Writing is a very isolating occupation.

— Ellen Ullman

“Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

— Giancarlo Esposito

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a…

— Miranda July

“I was as hurt by this as if I were engaged in some honest occupation. There is nothing surprising about this. Human beings feel…

— Charles Neider

I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.

— Lynne Tillman

I've made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment where nothing…

— Jess Phillips