Lack of sleep Quote by Ian McEwan

“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

“I did not want to live out my life in the strennous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the…

— Jim Harrison

“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

“...experience was static in the valley; it was older than time itself, for time was a thing of but two generations, dated by moons…

— Peter Matthiessen

“I had no thought, that night—none, I am quite sure—of what was soon to happen to me. But I have always remembered since, that…

— Charles Dickens

“Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I…

— Neil Gaiman

“It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if…

— Donna Tartt

“Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life was running, running after a mirage-like desires. I met him, by chance, resting for a night on a bank of Time. observed him…

— Suman Pokhrel

“To every hour, its mystery. At dawn, the riddles of life and light. At noon, the conundrums of solidity. At three, in the hum…

— Clive Barker

“Perhaps my sense of reality is not very highly developed, perhaps I lack a sound and reassuring instinct for the solid facts of our…

— Annemarie Schwarzenbach

“For days afterward, a series of magical thoughts flew through my mind. For instance, it seemed somehow surprising that the hours continued to pass…

— Karen Thompson Walker