Always Quote by Maria Semple

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and its a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing…

— Maria Semple

I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can…

— Kai Ryssdal

I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them for another…

— Geraldine Brooks

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers…

— Haruki Murakami

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

— Don Winslow

I hike every day with my dog, after the kids are off to school. I tend to get wrapped up in all the things…

— Natalie Maines

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want…

— Harry Connick, Jr

When I was a kid, one thing I counted on was rushing home from church to catch the start of the race. There's something…

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have…

— Sofia Coppola

After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast…

— Gerry Lindgren

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great…

— Anonymous

I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can.…

— Bethany Mota