Charles M. Schulz Quotes

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

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 would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

Every day I'm not working or writing is a wasted day to me.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

There is time to play and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.

I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.