697 Quotes by John Irving

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.

Baseball is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action.

A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.