Bedtime Quotes by Khaled Hosseini, Ethan Hawke, David Lloyd, Shelby Harris, Charles Caleb Colton, Adam Sandler and many others.
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.
When I am an old man, I will tell my grandchildren bedtime stories about when I won the Champions League, hopefully when I won the World Cup, but most of all, I will tell them that their grandfather used to play with Lionel Messi.
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.
I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars…within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict – because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.
Bedtime is truly one of my favorite times.
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.
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.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can’t get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
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.
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally fascinated by science?
My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.
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.
My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on Cosby nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.
Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.
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.
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Laugh and the world laughs with you!
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
It appears that every man‘s insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn’t care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It’s like, ‘Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.’
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.
For the first three years of his life, my son insisted on hearing ‘Goodnight Moon‘ before bedtime. Like most babies, he was not a good sleeper by disposition – but reading seemed to help, and this book specifically became part of his whole wind-down ritual.
But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
The worst thing in the world is to be bland.
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.
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.
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night‘s sleep. You can’t focus on your work if you’re sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.
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.
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.