Books Quote by Khaled Hosseini

There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world…

— 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

I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they…

— Charles Soule

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while…

— Dean Koontz

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a…

— Jodi Picoult

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush,…

— Ben H. Winters

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that…

— Ruth Glick

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws…

— Daniel Alarcon

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences…

— Anonymous

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe…

— Harlan Coben

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going…

— Kathryn Stockett