“There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.” — John Irving Quote

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

If anything, you just let your racket talk - there's no reason for you to talk if your racket can.

Believe me, I have met so many people who absolutely have no reason to feel important, and they do!

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

If the challenge wasn't there, there's no reason to say 'yes' to the role.

All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.