Simon Toyne Quotes

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

If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

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.

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.

I work on weekends, but from home.

A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

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

It's the best deal of, of this whole thing is it turns out I've got this nice home office. And at the end of the day, yeah, I can come home, even if I've got more work to do, I can have dinner with them. I can help them with their homework. I can tuck them in. If I've gotta go back to the office, I can.

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

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

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

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 am at home with my kids from 6 to 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule to have dinner after 8. But we're working at night. You'll get plenty of emails from me post-8 P.M. when my kids go to bed.

I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.

I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.

One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.

It's important to me that I don't spend too much time away from the family. I try to pick jobs that will keep me as close to home as possible or, if I have to go far away, for as little time as possible.

But I think we're going to have people who work from home a couple of days a week, three days a week, four days a week. And I'm perfectly comfortable with all that.

Sometimes I'm working at the training ground, sometimes at my home.

I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for my collection] while they nap, but at least I can sing [at home] while they sleep at night.

Even when I was out on tour I used to fly home on the weekends to be with my girl and be with my family to see my kids grow up and just be there for them. When they started going to school it was like that too whether it was homework or if I have to go up to the school I was there.

I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.

I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.