Bedtime Quotes - Page 8

• A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

  Matt Groening

  Moved On, Conan, Conan O Brien

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• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Fighting, Trying

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• Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Voice, Bed

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.170, Dynamite

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• And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

  Suzanne Collins

  Cheating, Joy, Said

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?

  John Waters

  Book, Fall, Sleep

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.153, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more.

  Steve McFadden

  Kids, Half, Way

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• To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."

  Bill Nighy

  Daughter, Sleep, Thinking

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• I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.

  Yvette Cooper

  Jobs, Children, Reading

  "Today" Programme, BBC, www.bbc.co.uk. May 2010.

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• When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Children, Lying

  "Dylan Moran: Like, Totally". Video, December 2006.

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• Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

  Elizabeth George

  Art, Writing, America

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

  Robert Morgan

  Reading, Writing, Decision

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• Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

  Robert Morgan

  Stories, Young Writers, Subjects

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• The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.

  Fred Ritchin

  Top Down, Media, Profound

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• No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

  Henry Gee

  Mean, Scarcity, Stories

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