Books Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“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

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.”

— E.M. Forster

“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall…

— Haruki Murakami

“At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write…

— Darin Strauss

“In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading…

— Edith Grossman

“He adored talking about the rich…. But his real wealth was literary. He had read many thousands of books. He said that history was…

— Peter Watson

“The dream came again—three times in three nights and always at the first of the year.”

— Jettie Necole

“although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains…

— Alexandre Dumas

“A dream caused by too much reading and not enough sleeping.”

— Gwen Hayes