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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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Thousand
Kite
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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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" No one ever really read to me as a child. "
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Read
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" 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. "
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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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" My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal. "
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" I - and, I suspect, millions of Americans like me, Republicans and Democrats alike - couldn't care less about Obama's middle name or the ridiculous six-degrees-of-separation game that is the William Ayers non-issue. "
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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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Think
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" I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. "
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Gift
Gifts
" My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters. "
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Easy
Romantic
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" To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance. "
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Duty
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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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Historical
Clear
Personal
" The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people. "
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Whether
Up
" A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched. "
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Democracy
Political
Think
" People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. "
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Find
Meaning
" I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. "
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Reader
Boring
Almost
" 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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Wait
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See
" 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. "
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Medicine
Three
" 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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Day
Awe
Before
" I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working. "
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Feel
Hate
Resting
" Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. "
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Sixties
Peaceful
Seventies
" 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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Never
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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 Can
Long
" The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. "
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Writing
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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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Time
People
" 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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Time
Impossible
Know
" There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle. "
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Struggle
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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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Own
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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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Father
Strong
" 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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Become
You
Way
" 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. "
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Life