Susan Orlean Quotes

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

Recess and lunch are the best.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

I've never worked during the summer. I take summers off.

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.

Some people work to have a weekend and so on the weekend they genuinely don't think about anything apart from the fact that they're on their weekend. Some people are like that so maybe some people would be like, "Yeah that'd be great. Take away my anxiety and give me a nice lounge chair." But I would be so not interested in that.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.

It's hard to think of a time when I'm not working, but when that is the case, I like to travel and eat good food.

To enjoy each breathing day, you have to set time aside to play.

I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer).

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.