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The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.
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Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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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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After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
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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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I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And
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In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.
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Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.
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It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
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