And off Quote by Khaled Hosseini

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing…

— Khaled Hosseini

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole…

— Khaled Hosseini

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in…

— Khaled Hosseini

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan

Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually…

— Debra Dean

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right…

— Julian Barnes

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison