Daniel Woodrell Quotes

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

I divide my time equally between teaching and research.

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.

My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling.

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.

I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.

Work does affect my personal life, as it consumes most of my time. It takes away a lot from my family time.

Earlier in my career, there may have been compulsions for accepting films for money.

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.