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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. "

Khaled Hosseini

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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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" Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought. "

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" I would like people to have an appreciation for what happened to women under the Taliban, as in 'A Thousand Splendid Suns.' I hope they get a sense of how connected we all are. "

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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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" 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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" My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart. "

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" There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle. "

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" The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" Writing for me is largely about rewriting. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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" I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house. "

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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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" The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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