Sleepless night Quote by Charles Baxter

“As a general rule, highly rational writers (like Nabokov) write most comfortably in the morning, and mainly intuitive writers write most comfortably at night.”

— John Gardner

“Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it…

— Jamie Weise

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov”

— Leslie Langtry

“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for…

— César Aira

“If a story doesn’t wake you up at night, if it doesn’t nag at you throughout the day, it is not worth writing.”

— Raymond Bolton

“Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.”

— Jason E. Hodges

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never…

— Zadie Smith

“I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.”

— Anonymous

“Sleep just gets in the way of the writing I want to do.”

— Celine Garcia

“He was born sleepless, without a talent for rest or the desire for it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

— Zadie Smith

Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that…

— Hallgrimur Helgason