James Rollins Quotes

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.

I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.

Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.

I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.

I'm constantly taking calls and responding to e-mails at home, and I find it best to have that little work space. And then when you're not at that little space, it's not work anymore.

If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.

Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.

I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.

I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.

Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

I like to work from home. I do most of my writing in bed, late at night after everyone has gone to sleep. I need to be alone with my thoughts, and late at night is about the only time that can actually happen.

I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.