Mark Manson Quotes

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

I love writing, and I am one of the people who can do it and make a living.

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

I didn't do it for the money. I know a lot of people say that, but if I'd wanted to be rich, I'd have stayed working as a city lawyer. I gave that up eight years ago and took a massive drop in salary, and I didn't mind because I was doing what I loved. There's plenty of material for the other five books.

I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job.

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.