A Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates
American - Writer
Born: June 16, 1938

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

John Burnside

you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.

Joyce Carol Oates

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

Monica Keena

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

Jonathan Lethem

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

Emile M. Cioran

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Selena Gomez

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Leonard Cohen

I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

Carson Daly

I'm an insomniac.

Shamita Shetty

I am an insomniac.

Josh Hartnett

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

Anais Nin

I'm an insomniac. Ambien is my best friend.

Johnny Weir

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

Pete Wentz

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Alberto Manguel

I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.