Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

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've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

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.

I love that I can work from home and take my kids to school every day.

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

Because I had the children, I chose to have my studio in my home. I wanted them to understand my work and learn how to work.

Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.

I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit down and do things, he wants to be there with me and play the guitar.

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.'

It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.

I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.