E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

How does one get bored of life?

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

The glamour wears off and it soon becomes a job

I find the idea of doing what you do over and over again to be incredibly boring.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there's an attachment. But you don't want anything to become comfortable.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

I spent some time in France, visited Egypt and Mexico City. I hung out, biked around, planted some tomatoes. I did everything except wake up in a new town everyday. It was really boring. It's just life.

For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.