Pusha T Quotes

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

I really get my best work done in the morning, so if I have to edit speeches or comments, that all happens before I get to work.

I get up very early and write a lot.

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

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.

When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.

I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.

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

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

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.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

I take breaks now and then. But when I work, I get things done at a fast pace.

Getting up early means I can write for a few hours before anyone starts phoning me or ringing the doorbell.

In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

Lot of work can be completed by 7 A.M.; people who wake up at 10 and 11 don't know what they are missing.

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.