Stephanie Laurens Quotes

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.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.

It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

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

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

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 try to keep a regular work schedule.

I try to prioritize a certain amount of quiet work every day.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs]

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

I don't take time off.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.