Bedtime Quotations

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I was a child, I have been fascinated by science fiction. My all-time favorite is 'The Foundation Trilogy,' by Isaac Asimov.

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

This program has been a tremendous help. Dylan has to have his bedtime story every night and it usually ends up being five or six bedtime stories. This has really helped him develop intellectually.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories.

I was thinking 'When are we going to get this thing over. I looked at my watch at one point and it was three hours past my bedtime and we were still playing.

Though we think bedtime is the last thing on anyone's mind while on a Royal Caribbean cruise, we do realize that sleeping well is essential to our guest's vacation experience.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.

It's very easy to see those on a bedtime schedule and those not.

By teaching the parent to read, the children increase their opportunity to share in the wonderful world of educational enlightenment. In addition to helping the adults pursue higher education and obtain better jobs, their children now have a mom and dad to read them bedtime stories.

All writers are vampires.

I am moving on to outpatient treatment and I can't tell you what a blessing it is. Though I know there is still a long road ahead, it's nice to be feeling more like myself again -- laughing with family, reading bedtime stories and reminding my kids to do their homework.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps

The game started just about a half hour before their usual bedtime of 7:30. I'm thrilled we got to see half the game. Even if we only saw 10 minutes, it would've been worth it at 10 bucks a ticket.

We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth

And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.