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" Afghan people are just so tired of war. "
Khaled Hosseini
Tired
People
Just
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" Writing for me is largely about rewriting. "
Khaled Hosseini
Me
Rewriting
Writing
" Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read. "
Khaled Hosseini
Things
Never
Learn
" 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
Long
Life
Consequences
" Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings. "
Khaled Hosseini
People
Used
Write
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
School
Training
Medical
" I felt on the periphery of high school culture; one of those invisible creatures that walk the campus. I think it was a lot worse for my parents. "
Khaled Hosseini
School
Think
Walk
" You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not. "
Khaled Hosseini
Write
You
Like
" There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle. "
Khaled Hosseini
Always
Struggle
Easy
" I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back. "
Khaled Hosseini
Life
World
Myself
" I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. "
Khaled Hosseini
Thousand
Kite
Extremism
" The deal is such that when I begin writing something, I open a door, and those characters come in, and then they won't leave, and so I live with them every day, all day. They are there with me when I'm driving my kids to school, when I'm standing in line at the grocery store. "
Khaled Hosseini
School
Day
Writing
" I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege. "
Khaled Hosseini
Doctor
Good
Me
" I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. "
Khaled Hosseini
Come
Think
Time
" Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life. "
Khaled Hosseini
Public
Women
Afghanistan
" I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan. "
Khaled Hosseini
Day
Awe
Before
" You don't need a cheerleader. That's the worst thing that can happen to you. "
Khaled Hosseini
Cheerleader
You
Happen
" Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess. "
Khaled Hosseini
Time
Impossible
Know
" 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
Job
Security
Time
" Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. "
Khaled Hosseini
Act
Active
Reading
" 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
Story
Ideas
Down
" The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. "
Khaled Hosseini
Me
Success
Surprise
" I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. "
Khaled Hosseini
Nothing
Gift
Gifts
" There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. "
Khaled Hosseini
Poetry
Tradition
Great
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Chance
Time
Life
" 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
Happiness
Children
Love
" I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house. "
Khaled Hosseini
Parents
House
Books
" Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval. "
Khaled Hosseini
Nation
Conservative
Live
" I've learned things about the craft of writing and about structuring a book and about character development and so on that I've just learned on the fly. "
Khaled Hosseini
Craft
Fly
Book
" I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. "
Khaled Hosseini
Far
Books
Electronic
" Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. "
Khaled Hosseini
Sixties
Peaceful
Seventies