Bedtime Quote by Bill Walsh Download Open image “Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call” — Bill Walsh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bedtime Copies Editors Shock Vary Wake up Wake up call Writing
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.” — Graeme Roberts Copy Share Image
Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share
Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night. — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. — John Hope Copy Share Image
Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Instilling the right culture almost always takes time. And inevitably there will be some who balk against your standards. But, you must have the… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
All successful leaders know where we want to go, figure out a way we believe will get the organization there, and then move forward… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
The running game in pro football has gotten so boring. There's just four or five plays they can run. I think the whole thing… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering. — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Victory is produced by and belongs to all. Winning a Super Bowl results from you whole team not only doing their individual jobs but… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow 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
“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 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