Book Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so best to…

— Patrick deWitt

“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there.…

— Jane Yolen

“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.”

— Gregory John

“Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it…

— Twain, Mark

“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a…

— James Dickey

“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.”

— Victor Hugo

“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.”

— Arthur Gordon