A Quote by John Irving

My life is a reading list.

John Irving

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Life Life Is Life Is A List My Life Reading

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John Irving
American - Novelist
Born: March 2, 1942

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.

Mark Helprin

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have family dinners where we all sat there reading. It wasn't because we didn't like each other. We just liked reading. The person who made my reading list until my late teen years was my mom.

Keith Gessen

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

George W. Bush

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

Joshuah Bearman

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

James Emery White

Everybody in their life has a list of what they want to do: I'm very lucky indeed to do one thing on that list.

Roddy Llewellyn

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.

Thomas Keneally

I hope that the entire Senate votes to say that if you're on the terrorist watch list - not just the no-fly list, which is a much more targeted list, but the terrorist watch list - you should not be able to buy a weapon.

Rob Portman

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.

Don Johnson

I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.

Kathy Griffin

My way of finding a book is to go on Emma Roberts' reading list.

Madelaine Petsch

The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I did B-list films because I couldn't find A-list ones. And then when I approached A-list directors with the experience I had gained, I was told that it was too late because I had done B-list films.

Sherlyn Chopra

Coming up with the bucket list is the easy part, but ticking off the list is the challenge. I love a good challenge, which is why I strongly advise everyone to come up with a bucket list. It doesn't have to contain out of this world tasks. But once you have written down the list, screw it, just do it!