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

— Khaled Hosseini

I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know…

— Kristen Stewart

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began…

— Harper Lee

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions…

— Kim Harrison

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you…

— Jean M. Auel

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

— Peter Heller

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

— Jeffery Deaver