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My freshman year in college, ...

My freshman year in college, I got a job working security. This was a high-tech building in Santa Clara, engineers coming in and out all the time.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

For a novelist, it's kind of ...

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

I have met so many people who...

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

My books are about ordinary p...

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

The experience of writing 'Th...

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

All stories I write are compu...

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

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Literary fiction is kept aliv...

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

The only two places where I c...

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

In many parts of the world, a...

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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In my 20s, life seemed endles...

In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote 'The Kite Runner.' I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do.

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For me as a writer, the story...

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

In Afghanistan, you don't und...

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

Nothing happens in a vacuum i...

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

I entered the literary world,...

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.

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I spent a lot of winters in m...

I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.

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A doctor in a hospital told m...

A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies.

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The difficulty of writing a s...

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

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My memories of Kabul are vast...

My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.

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I'm fascinated by the way ear...

I'm fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades - they can even shape who you ultimately become.

Khaled Hosseini 283 quotes

Ultimately, my books are not ...

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

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