Best 70 quotes in «bedtime quotes» category

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

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

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

All of life is a continuous state of wonder interrupted by bedtime and light snacks.

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

Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.

Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

Bedtime stories Eventide Rhapsodies Anthologies of Memory Please enter cautiously and feel free to open what is closed

Before you go to bed think about what you left behind in the wake of the day…

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.

Bedtime makes you realize how completely incapable you are of being in charge of another human being. My children act like they've never been to sleep before. "Bed? What's that? No, I'm not doing that." They never want to go to bed. This is is another thing that I will never have in common with my children.

Be my bedtime story and the thoughts that won't let me fall asleep. Be the conversation that I always have in my head at 3 AM and that beautiful voice that never lets me sleep.

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

Enough, woman who needs no sleep! It is past my bedtime! But I will ponder your suggestions in the morning when I wake up, which will be long after you've already risen.

Good night! Good night! Far flies the light; But still God's love Shall shine above, Making all bright, Good night! Good night!

(Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...) 'How can the wind have a job?' asked Frances. 'Everybody has a job,' said Father. 'I have to go to my office every morning at nine o'clock. That is my job. You have to go to sleep so you can be wide awake for school tomorrow. That is your job.' Frances said, 'I know, but...' Father said, 'I have not finished. If the wind does not blow the curtains, he will be out of a job. If I do not go to the office, I will be out of a job. And if you do not go to sleep now, do you know what will happen to you?' 'I will be out of a job?' said Frances. 'No,' said Father. 'I will get a spanking?' said Frances. 'Right!' said Father. 'Good night!' said Frances, and she went back to her room.

If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. —Richard Due

I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I'm really stupid, i will dare to take them to bed and excite them even more.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

I woke myself up to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn’t want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. “Don’t waste ’em, kitten.

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings. Once the lights are out, you can expect at least an hour of inmates clanging their tin cups on the cell bars.

Lots of children I know are excited to grow up. So I wonder why this man was so happy to become young again?

I lie in bed most nights, thinking of things.

Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says. No, Olivia, just one." How about four?" Two." Three." Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

till, silently without one peep, the angels come, their watch to keep. They'll hold you safe while dreaming deep. The pillow cool beneath your head, all star lit is your feather bed which glides the moonbeams like a sled, above towns which glitter blue and red.

Then as he's tucking me into bed, he's supposed to ask, How many stars? On a great day I'm supposed to say nine or ten. But if it was amazing, the best day I ever had, I'm supposed to cheat and say something like ten thousand stars.

So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows.

All writers are vampires.

Thinking about the bed leaves you horny, but thinking beyond the bed gives you honor, freedom and wisdom.

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

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.

Toilet paper unrolled and slithered then wrapped around my tummy. That paper tried to roll me up into an Egyptian mummy.

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

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.

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?

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

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

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.

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

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

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

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.

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.

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

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

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

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

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.