Robert Asprin Quotes

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

I work to stay alive.

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

I love the stage, but it doesn't pay the mortgage.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.

I always made a decent living.

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

I didn't become a caddie because I wanted to be a caddie. I was a caddie because that was how I could make money and feed myself. It was work. It was a dignified job.

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

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

I have to continue to work, and I have to be touring, because that's how I earn a living.

It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.

I am an actress and I do have to make a living.