I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
Since I was about seven, I've loved cooking. I'd wake up at five in the morning and make cinnamon rolls and all these different things.
I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.
I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.
Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
