William Falconer Quotes

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

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 have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.

When I'm working, I always make time to get exercise into my schedule.

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.

I try to keep a regular work schedule.

Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

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.

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.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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

We’ve got to end the 3 day work week.

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 don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

I'm a big believer in regularity. My father taught me that. Get up early, get your work done, and that's, what, your highest level of energy before lunch.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.

I wake up an hour and a half before I have to leave the house to do everything I need to do. But I have my routine, and I stick to it.

I keep a really tight schedule.

No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.

My working day usually lasts from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M., then two hours of viewing time for myself. It's like a religion.