1.
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
Alexander Fleming
2.
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
John Legend
4.
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
Ian Hunter
5.
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
Simon Bolivar
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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.
Chrissie Hynde
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
Terry McMillan
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Ed Koch
10.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Antonia Fraser
11.
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Gore Vidal
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
13.
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
Don DeLillo
14.
New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.
Barbara Holland
15.
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
Hugh MacDiarmid
16.
There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.
Dom DeLuise
17.
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.
Peter Straub
18.
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo
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And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.
Brian Lumley
21.
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
22.
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.
Patti Davis
23.
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
Beverly Cleary
25.
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
Thomas Perry
26.
I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
Veronica Roth
27.
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
Cheyenne Jackson
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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.
Stanley Schmidt
30.
A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.
Matt Groening
31.
We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.
Lewis Carroll
32.
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
John Dufresne
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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?
Suzanne Collins
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We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms.
Shelby Harris
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Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.
Charlie Brooker
36.
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Edna O'Brien
37.
Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.
Rainbow Rowell
38.
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
Daniel Handler
39.
Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
Mark Haddon
40.
Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
41.
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
Ken Follett
42.
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
Walter Mosley
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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.
Robert Morgan