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You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.

I usually work 16-hour days.

Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.

The basic work schedule for me is whenever I'm not doing anything more important, like taking care of my kids or something. So, it's most of the day, five days a week, most evenings and sometimes on the weekends.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.