Brigid Berlin Quotes

I don't make my bed. At the end of a day of going to construction sites, the last thing I want to do is move 10 pillows off the bed.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

I get up at the same time every morning.

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

I don't go anywhere without clean shoes. That's one thing I've got from the navy.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.

I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them.

I'm up at the crack of dawn.

I have a neat and tidy bed when I reach home but a cluttered one by the time I leave.

Nobody knows the hard work that goes in the morning before I do anything.

I run a tight ship. The kids are responsible for their own chores. Each morning they unload the dishwasher from the night before then collect eggs from our chickens, and I cook those while they get ready for school.

My mother was a professor and she would wake me up at 5:30 every morning. I've had that routine since I was a child. So it's not tough to wake up and face the camera at any time now.