Books Quote by Khaled Hosseini

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

— Marlee Matlin

In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I…

— Khaled Hosseini

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

— Stephen King

“Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a critic, a…

— Anis Shivani

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

— William Golding

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that…

— Rick Riordan

I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was…

— Donna Tartt

Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you…

— Mike Birbiglia

With writing, we have second chances.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting,…

— Anais Nin

You have to find a way of shutting the future out and focusing on the writing. One of the problems I'll have with writing…

— Ayana Mathis

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

— Arthur Brisbane