John Irving Quotes

I get up around 4 every morning because it's the only time I can find time for myself.

One of my favorite things to do is go running early in the morning when everyone in my house is still sleeping. I throw on my iPod, and it's, like, my time.

I like to go to bed early.

I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

I know that I need my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to talk to anybody at the start of my day!

I love the sunrise, as I am definitely a morning person! It's a great time to get up and have a coffee in the garden by myself before everybody wakes up.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.

Our family has dinner together every night - you can tell that my daughter wants to run. After dinner, I go up to my room and immediately put on my pajamas. I mean, immediately. I read some things that I haven't read yet, and I jump into bed.

I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time every day.

I think I get my alone time when I have to go fly and do a work trip. After work's done, I go check into my hotel, and I get to have a few hours to myself to order room service and just be quiet and silent.

I like to go to bed around 10 P.M.

In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.

Spending time by myself is VERY important to me and I wake up pretty early, I wake up around 5 in the morning, and I get to have a couple hours to myself, and that is definitely I think really important to me and I think it's important for moms to have that too. And I love to carve out time for myself and sometimes I'll hang out with girlfriends, but i like to keep things pretty intimate.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

After the kids are asleep you... well, you know. Whatever it is. You slip away for a night.

I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.