Bedtime Quotes
131 quotes by 121 authors
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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was…
— Samuel West
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Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of…
— Louise Brown
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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.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
— Eric Idle
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
— Antonia Fraser
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There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.
— Dom DeLuise
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
— Ian Hunter
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Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
— Hugh MacDiarmid
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Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
— Thomas Perry
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The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me…
— Chrissie Hynde
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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
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
— Joan Didion
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
— Beverly Cleary
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Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of…
— Norman Lear
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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…
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
— Richard O'Brien
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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…
— Stanley Schmidt
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The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
— Sheri S. Tepper
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I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it…
— Patti Davis
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Who Wrote These Bedtime Quotes
121 authors contributed a total of 131 Bedtime Quotes, led by these top contributors: