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" I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read. "

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" I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law. "

Khaled Hosseini

I Am

Oppression

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" You must not believe your own PR; it would be grotesque. "

" I never thought what I wrote was good enough to be published. I thought of myself as completely detached from that constellation of real writers. It was completely for myself. "

" 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. "

" I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. "

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

" I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S. "

" You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not. "

Khaled Hosseini

Write

You

" 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. "

" Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life. "

" American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated. "

Khaled Hosseini

American

Culture

" I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. "

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

" I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working. "

" I hear from non-Afghan immigrants - Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs in France - all the time. These people have had to redefine their lives, which is what my family went through when we came to the U.S. in 1980. "

" Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. "

" I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. "

" I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films. "

" I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed. "

" One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we're all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't need a cheerleader. That's the worst thing that can happen to you. "

" I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting. "

" My books never go where I think they're going. "

Khaled Hosseini

Going

Books

" 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. "

" 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. "