The rat scuttles, the big cat creeps, the monkey dashes…

The significant owl hoots in the night.

— Terry Pratchett

“We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks…

— David Almond

“A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night...it's still a bloody bird.”

— Oliver Reed

A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

— Sandy Fussell

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

— Bryan Batt

“He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist…

— Chelsie Shakespeare

“I think the best time to launch an assault on a city would be not only in the middle of the night, but also…

— Jarod Kintz

I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it…

— David Small

Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to…

— Cassandra Clare

Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.

— Anonymous

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

— Jack Bruce

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every…

— Roald Dahl

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency…

— Janet Fitch

Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?

— Ilona Andrews

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright--…

— Lewis Carroll