Any Quote by Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant:…

— Guy de Maupassant

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

— Guy de Maupassant

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

— Dennis Green

“AB: It’s a great gift. It was the training: to listen, to observe. Those skills are very much what you need as a writer.…

— Amy Bloom

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also…

— Amy Bloom

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had…

— Ted Dekker

“training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training…

— Philip Pullman

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

— Alice Walker

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write…

— Lawrence Block

When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic glamour. It…

— Robin Beth Schaer

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary…

— Jonathan Ames

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

— Charles Bock

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the…

— Harold Bloom