Bedtime Quotes

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.