Writing Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

“I will use a flower petal for paper, And write you the sweetest letter,”

— Khaled Hosseini

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

— Khaled Hosseini

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

— Khaled Hosseini

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't…

— Khaled Hosseini

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of…

— Khaled Hosseini

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't…

— Khaled Hosseini

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily…

— Khaled Hosseini

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and…

— Khaled Hosseini

I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I…

— Khaled Hosseini

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a…

— Khaled Hosseini

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of…

— Khaled Hosseini

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,…

— Khaled Hosseini

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life,…

— Khaled Hosseini

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as…

— Khaled Hosseini

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I…

— Khaled Hosseini

You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be…

— Khaled Hosseini

“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at…

— Khaled Hosseini

I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will…

— Khaled Hosseini

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I see the creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing..and you will find all manner…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing…

— Khaled Hosseini

“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Maman had been a gifted writer. Pari has read every word Maman had written in French and every poem she had translated…

— Khaled Hosseini

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

— Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

— Khaled Hosseini

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love…

— Khaled Hosseini

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with…

— Khaled Hosseini

There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really…

— Khaled Hosseini

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,…

— Khaled Hosseini

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is…

— Khaled Hosseini

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a…

— Khaled Hosseini

I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image…

— Khaled Hosseini