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Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.

I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.

I usually work 16-hour days.