Tom Perez Quotes

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

I like to work in the morning, usually from 7-12, and still always hope to do more later. At the end of a book, I just work most of the time, but in general, I like to be working nice and early.

If I can get some time off and still be productive and go 85-90 percent of the plays, that's fine with me.

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

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

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

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

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

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

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.

We’ve got to end the 3 day work week.

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

I have a concentrated period of work for about five months, and then I take a bunch of time off. That's just the way I work.

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

I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.

Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.

I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.

I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!"