Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

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.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

Becoming a dad has been a big change for me - I didn't have any responsibilities before. I obviously practised every day, but there was that luxury of things like watching movies when I wanted or waking up whenever I wanted.

I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.

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

I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

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.

Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.

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.

The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.

I am trying to prioritize and keep everything in balance, which for me is not easy.