I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story.

— Rob Burrow

When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the…

— Rory Block

“Once the umbilical cord falls off, bathe every evening as a matter of routine. Babies learn by association and they will associate bath time…

— Jennifer Walker

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a…

— Robert Bloch

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers…

— Stanley Schmidt

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

— Cheyenne Jackson

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

— Erin Morgenstern

Ah, music, A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

— Albus Dumbledore

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

— Edmund Vance Cooke

My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according…

— Nate Powell

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

— Lytton Strachey

My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those…

— Allison Pearson

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

— Simon Bolivar

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways.…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers…

— Vanessa Hudgens