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" I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. "
Khaled Hosseini
Come
Think
Time
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" My parents were reasonably affluent in Kabul. In the States, we were on welfare. My mom became a waitress, and my dad became a driving instructor. That part of the American immigrant experience applies to people of any nationality. "
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" A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies. "
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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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" I'm so fascinated by how people destroy each other and love each other. "
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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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" Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up. "
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Either
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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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" 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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World
Myself
" 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 remember how I picked up 'Different Seasons,' but it was a book I read on a grave shift. I was absolutely floored by it; 'The Body,' a story about kids who go searching for a corpse in the woods, impacted me especially. "
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Story
Woods
" I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. "
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Boring
Almost
" 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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People
Got
Book
" 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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Think
Men
Women
" 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 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. "
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Time
People
Family
" 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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Thousand
Kite
Extremism
" The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. "
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Difficulty
Writing
Successful
" 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
" The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. "
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Me
Success
Surprise
" The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people. "
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Jury
Whether
Up
" 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. "
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American
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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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" The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime. "
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Bed
I Can
Long
" I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. "
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Far
Books
Electronic
" 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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Now
" 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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" 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
" Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. "
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Act
Active
Reading
" 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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