Jason Reynolds Quotes

My brain is just always going and going and going.

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

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

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

You get to a stage where you replay every scenario in your head, but you have to stop; otherwise, you drive yourself insane.

The moments before I fall asleep are when my list of things to do attacks my brain.

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.