Khaled Hosseini Quotes

My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did, and it was published, and people liked it, it was great.

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

Having my novels published is a dream come true.

If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.

All films that I have done, this legacy, is a like a dream come true for me.

Just for me - obviously, not all writers think this - but for me, I feel like seeing my book in Target and Barnes & Noble is pretty successful.

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

I have my dream job.