Diana Penty Quotes

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

I'm always working, and I'm a single parent, so I don't think I have time for stuff most normal people do.

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

I like to have a hectic schedule.

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.

I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!

Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

I'm constantly on the go.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you're married now. You still have all the things that you've had, plus you just keep adding.

Half of the time, I'm walking around a construction site, then I'm transitioning into the evening, having drinks with the girlfriends or meeting with my husband and then racing back home to put the kids to bed. I have less time, so I'm a much more efficient decision maker.

This industry kind of forces you to grow up very quickly.

There's not enough time in each day to really focus enough attention on any one thing, but I'm doing my best. I have a great group of people who support me, and I don't sleep a lot. It's like I'm on a constantly spinning merry-go-round, and every day, I'm wondering when it will stop so I can get off. I love what I do, so that helps a lot.

I like to have fun, but I don't have a lot of time for myself. I do have eight kids!

I'm definitely not eager to grow up, but I do like some adult stuff.