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" No one ever really read to me as a child. "
Khaled Hosseini
Me
Read
Child
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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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Craft
Fly
Book
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Think
She
Now
" I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed. "
Khaled Hosseini
Father
Own
My Own
" 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
" I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working. "
Khaled Hosseini
Feel
Hate
Resting
" Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings. "
Khaled Hosseini
People
Used
Write
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
People
Women
Like
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Fame
Life
Kind
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
World
Think
Voice
" I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. "
Khaled Hosseini
School
Training
Medical
" I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. "
Khaled Hosseini
People
Got
Book
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Me
Doctor
Early
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
People
Duty
Love
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Chance
Time
Life
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Own
Surprise
Way
" You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not. "
Khaled Hosseini
Write
You
Like
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Start
Writing
Surprise
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Go
Memories
Country
" There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle. "
Khaled Hosseini
Always
Struggle
Easy
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Easy
Romantic
Love
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Doctor
Good
Me
" My books never go where I think they're going. "
Khaled Hosseini
Go
Going
Books
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Think
Back
Experience
" 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
" Syria's neighboring countries cannot and should not carry the cost of caring for refugees on their own. The international community must share the burden with them by providing economic aid, investing in development in those countries, and opening their own borders to desperate Syrian families looking for protection. "
Khaled Hosseini
Caring
Own
Opening
" There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government. "
Khaled Hosseini
Government
Corruption
Always
" You have to be able to interact with people whose politics you disagree with. "
Khaled Hosseini
Whose
Disagree
People
" People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. "
Khaled Hosseini
Connections
Find
Meaning
" I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films. "
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Quality
Way
Writing
" 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. "
Khaled Hosseini
Politics
Toil
Struggle