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" I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. "

Khaled Hosseini

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" Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a place for it and narrow down. It's, really, just start small, and as I'm writing it, I begin to see - sometimes to my own surprise - what's unfolding and what's blooming. "

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

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" The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people. "

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" 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. "

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" I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. "

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

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" I'm so fascinated by how people destroy each other and love each other. "

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" Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can't resist because all the great themes of human life - duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy - you find all those things within families. "

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" I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Obama's middle name differs from my last name by only two vowels. Does the McCain-Palin campaign view me as a pariah, too? Do McCain and Palin think there's something wrong with my name? "

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" 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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" Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. "

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" There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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" Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up. "

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" 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. "

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