John Irving Quotes

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

I am a bookworm.

I was a reader before I was a writer - one of those kids who walked home from school with a book up to my face, about to fall in the proverbial pothole because I couldn't see where I was going. And now I'm one of those people whose books are triple shelved and who can't go anywhere without carrying two titles - one that I'm reading and one backup.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I'm a bookworm.

I was always fond of books right since my childhood days. Even as a teenager, books were my company. Not that I did not have friends, but books kept my occupied most of the time.

I always look for a bookshop wherever I go.

I have been a voracious reader.

I'm always reading. I've loved reading since I was young, and I've always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially one that you begin to create in your head.

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

We live for books.

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

I was never without a book in my hand.

Reading begets reading.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

I am more or less reading all the time.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.