David Nicholls Quotes

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.

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

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

I work on weekends, but from home.

I love that I can work from home and take my kids to school every day.

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

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

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

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

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 have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.

Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.

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.

Because I had the children, I chose to have my studio in my home. I wanted them to understand my work and learn how to work.

Working from home while caring for children seems impossible.

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.

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I'm finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball.

If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

In theory, I absolutely love to work from home, in all its warmth and comfort, but have reluctantly been forced to confess that it's a total failure.

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