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You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.
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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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But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.
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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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If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.
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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 The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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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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The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
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You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.
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The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.
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That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
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If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
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some stories don't need telling
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If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.
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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.
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