Tony DiTerlizzi Quotes

I'm afraid I'm a complete workaholic perfectionist.

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on 'Superwoman.' I'm a huge workaholic. My hobby is 'Superwoman.'

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When we're concrete about our writing time, it alleviates that thin constant feeling of anxiety that writers have - we're barbecuing hot dogs, riding a bike, sailing out in the bay, shopping for shoes, even helping a sick friend, but somewhere nervously at the periphery of our perception we know we belong somewhere else - at our desk!

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.