Compulsion Quote by Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in…

— Paul Auster

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my…

— Don Winslow

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

— Carrie Brownstein

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing…

— Howard Shore

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

— Jess Walter

The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much…

— Paloma Elsesser