Wallace Stevens Quotes

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I get into the office about 7 A.M., then I usually get out of the office a little after 7 P.M. I get home, I have dinner, then I spend a couple hours with my girls. I'm in bed about 9 P.M. That's the program!

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.

I don't work late into the night.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

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.

Office hours are from 12 to 1, with an hour off for lunch.

Here it may be convenient ... to say something of recreation and home life. Both are sadly curtailed by office.

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.

Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.

What I do is my life, but it's not like I spend 18 hours a day, seven days a week in the restaurants.

I prefer a long day of starting in the morning over working late into the night.

I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.

In the mornings I drop my son off at school and then head to work. I am done at work by 2:00 P. M. and can head home.

I suffer mightily at the 7 A.M. calls. I'm happy as a clam on the 7 P.M. calls.

People think I work a lot more than I do. I think because you're in people's living rooms every day they're like: 'Oh my God, you're always on the telly,' but it's like, 'Yeah but you always have to go to work every day nine till five whereas I finish at 12:30 P.M. and then I'm home.'

I'm usually done working by Happy Hour.

I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.