Quotes About Productivity

You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.

I don't think I would deliver the best work if I would do several projects at the same time. So it's one at a time, but I work a lot. I work nonstop actually, but that's what I like.

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 like to start my day after noon. I'm not a morning person at all!

I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.

I'm definitely a note taker.

When you're in a meeting and you pull out your paper notebook, people look at you and go, 'Oh, he's taking a note.' But if you're in a meeting and you pull out your iPad, they go, 'Oh, he's checking Facebook.'

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

The job of the iPad should be to be so powerful and capable that you never need a notebook.

I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours.

I'm usually up until around 1 A.M. or 2 A.M. I don't get much sleep - and I prefer it that way, writing notes and coming up with different ideas for two to three hours between 11 P.M. and 1 A.M. or 2 A.M.

I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

Usually, if I have a day to write, I will spend the first hour thinking about how I am going to structure my day. I will also spend time helping my kids to get ready for school. Then I spend an hour making and eating breakfast, because balanced nutrition has suddenly become very important.