• "My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl." - Sarah Zettel Tweet
• "Every morning I wake up with new ideas." - Caroll Shelby Tweet
• "We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever." - Arthur Hiller Tweet
• "Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress." - Charles Dickens Tweet
• "I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing." - Carlos Fuentes Tweet
• "My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long." - Rainn Wilson Tweet
• "It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone." - Mary Oliver Tweet
• "I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence." - Karl Rove Tweet
• "I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood." - Wole Soyinka Tweet
• "Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning." - Amy Grant Tweet