Awake Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to…

— Anonymous

“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their…

— Sigmund Freud

“One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more ghosts, more…

— Thomas Pynchon

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that…

— Mark Helprin

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger,…

— Plutarch

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“He mostly read articles as opposed to books. He hides behind numbers, percentage points, and grim prediction for the future. He thinks they will…

— Edmond Manning

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He…

— Paulo Coelho

“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

When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it.…

— Anonymous

There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and…

— John Herschel