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" I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way. "
Khaled Hosseini
Own
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" The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime. "
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" 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 grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well. "
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" I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan. "
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" There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. "
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" I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. "
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" Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. "
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" In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst. "
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" For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. "
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" I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. "
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" Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world. "
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" I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. "
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" It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all. "
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Life
Kind
" 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. "
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" I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed. "
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" People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. "
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" When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that. "
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" You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished. "
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" 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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" Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life. "
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" Syria's neighboring countries cannot and should not carry the cost of caring for refugees on their own. The international community must share the burden with them by providing economic aid, investing in development in those countries, and opening their own borders to desperate Syrian families looking for protection. "
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" 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. "
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" I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical. "
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" My books never go where I think they're going. "
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" I'm so fascinated by how people destroy each other and love each other. "
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" I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. "
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" There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle. "
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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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" 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. "
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