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Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.
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Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
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I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
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The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.
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Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
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At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.
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In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
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