A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

Thomas Jefferson

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Bedtime Candlelight Early Read

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

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

When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

Mal Peet

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

Nathan Fillion

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

Jane Gardam

My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories.

Lily James

I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.

Khaled Hosseini

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

Eula Biss

I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.

Blake Crouch

When I was a kid, my father would read Neil Simon plays with me, when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories.

Zach Woods

I'm nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn't want my mom to see that I was still awake.

Jamila Woods

Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to.

Neil Gaiman

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Daniel Handler

I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

Adam Sandler

I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.