Bedtime Quotes

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

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

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

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

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.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

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

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

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

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.

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

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

All writers are vampires.

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

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

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

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

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

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.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

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

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

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.

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.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

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.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

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?