Bedtime Quote by Antonia Fraser Download Open image “That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.” — Antonia Fraser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bedtime Concern Crime Prison Writing
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. — Mary Archer Copy Share Image
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're the dude… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply. — Will Self Copy Share Image
What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy. — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
“Bedtime stories Eventide Rhapsodies Anthologies of Memory Please enter cautiously and feel free to open what is closed” — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed. — Edmund Vance Cooke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image