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" My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. "
Khaled Hosseini
Wife
Editor
Everything
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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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" 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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" 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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" You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not. "
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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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" 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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" No one ever really read to me as a child. "
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" 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. "
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School
" 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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" 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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Think
" The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people. "
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Whether
Up
" 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
" 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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Way
" 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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" For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. "
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Burden
Culture
" 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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Long
Life
Consequences
" 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
" 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. "
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You
Uncle
Son
" 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
" Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters. "
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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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" 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
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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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People
Got
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" There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. "
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Tradition
Great
" 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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Live
Simple
Enjoy
" You don't need a cheerleader. That's the worst thing that can happen to you. "
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You
Happen
" I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. "
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Come
Think
Time
" The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. "
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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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" Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. "
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