“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”

“I am Envy… I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator

“I am free from ties and can live a life of retirement.
When I rise from sleep, I play with books and harp.”

Tao Yuanming Shady

“I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

“Whether or not the soul is immortal is a fact in nature and cannot be changed by any book whatever. If I am immortal, I am. If am not, no book can render me so. It is no more wonderful that I should live again than that I do live.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) Canadian fiction writer

“When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

“Oh, I am not quite sleeping.
Oh, I am fast in bed.”

Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist