Don Winslow Quotes

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don't know what's coming next, and I really have to force it.

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!

I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

A large amount of constant activity will get things going. For example, training in the morning will have everything, all the juices flowing by the time you actually get to work. So, when you're at work, you've been already up for an hour or so or two hours, and you're raring to go where everyone else is still wiping sleep out of their eyes.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

You know, when I am working, I take really, really good care of myself. I eat really well, and I exercise, and again, I have this team of people pulling me together every day.

I'm not a person who would get up at 5 A.M. to write, but I could sacrifice my Friday night and just order in dinner, sit at home and get into it.

I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.