Awake Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

— Jonathan Gottschall

But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest,…

— Jack London

Sometimes good stories are created while documenting dreams.

— Ruskin Bond

“Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention…

— William Beckford

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“After a night's sleep the news is as indispensable as the breakfast. "Pray tell me anything new that has happened to a man anywhere…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams…

— Vikrmn

“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

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

— Anonymous

“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind.…

— Lauren Wolk

Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners…

— Seth Grahame-Smith