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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.