I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.
I work virtually every waking hour.
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.
Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.
I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.
I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.
I have no trouble with my sleep, but the amount I have varies from four to eight hours, depending on my schedule.
You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
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'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.