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" People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. "
Khaled Hosseini
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" Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. "
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" My freshman year in college, I got a job working security. This was a high-tech building in Santa Clara, engineers coming in and out all the time. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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" Afghan people are just so tired of war. "
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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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" You don't need a cheerleader. That's the worst thing that can happen to you. "
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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 only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. "
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" I do live with the very real possibility that we don't have endless stories to tell. "
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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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Kind
" 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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" 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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" I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed. "
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" You must not believe your own PR; it would be grotesque. "
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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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" 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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" Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on terrorism. Precious little is said about the Afghan people themselves - their culture, their traditions, how they lived in their country and how they manage abroad as exiles. "
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" There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle. "
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