Michael Chabon Quotes

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

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.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

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.

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience.

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!

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.

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.

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.

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 don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern.

I'm usually done working by Happy Hour.

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 really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

A lot of the TV shows, they do long hours, and they do a lot of days, and you don't get a lot of time. But the good thing is, if you get one that's made in L.A., or made in a place you want to be, you get to go home every night.

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.

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

I work on weekends, but from home.