Now we have a gig economy where many people are holding down several jobs at once. The whole concept of a 40-hour week makes people under 30 laugh.

- Katrina Onstad

It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now: being busy and overworked is …

- Katrina Onstad

On a societal level, what happens to community when people don't have time to gather or connect, in person, not just over social media? Not having ti…

- Katrina Onstad

I know Stephen King is uncompromising on the idea that writers should practise their craft every single day, and it clearly works for him. Personally…

- Katrina Onstad

I talked to a lot of people about what makes a good weekend, and discovered a few common threads: human connection, play, interaction with nature, ex…

- Katrina Onstad

There's something about the weekend, even for non-religious people, that feels sacred, so a violation of that sanctified time is almost a betrayal, s…

- Katrina Onstad

We know that people who work without breaks get tired, introduce errors, get sick and miss out on life. Make no mistake: those staff room hammocks ar…

- Katrina Onstad

When we don't get that escape from our work selves, I think we feel its absence on a deep, almost primal level. Leisure is uncommodified, unoccupied …

- Katrina Onstad

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

- Katrina Onstad