Source: Communications of an Advertising Man (1961), p. 81
“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”
Reported in various works including Eugene C. Gerhart, Quote It Completely!: World Reference Guide to More Than 5,500 Memorable Quotes from Law and Literature (1998), p. 113, which cites the quote to MENCKEN, HL, A New Dictionary of Quotations, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957, p. 134. However, the authorship of the quote does not lie with any work original to Mencken, and was previously reported as an anonymous quote.
Misattributed
“Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p20.
“Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."”
Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
Happyslapped by a Jellyfish
On Little People
“To me, art has always been a fun way to be creative.”
Hopkinton Center for the Arts show delivers excitement and skill https://web.archive.org/web/20190504184619/https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/entertainment/20180211/hopkinton-center-for-arts-show-delivers-excitement-and-skill (February 11, 2018)
“It was the most fun I ever had. I would just laugh between takes. It was fun to be so mean.”
About acting in Carrie. Theodore P. Mahne, "Actress Piper Laurie charms audience, interviewer at Tennessee Williams Festival" (25 March 2012), Times-Picayune at nola.com (New OrleansNet) http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/03/actress_piper_laurie_charms_au.html
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
