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School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

I don't work 9 to 5.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

When you're on the way up, you have to take all the jobs because bills have to be paid.