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Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
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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 The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
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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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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.
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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
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Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.
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Reading is an active, imaginative act it takes work.
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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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[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.
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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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If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.
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