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" The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. "
Khaled Hosseini
Me
Success
Surprise
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" I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do. "
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" Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. "
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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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" 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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Mom
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" I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house. "
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" I never thought what I wrote was good enough to be published. I thought of myself as completely detached from that constellation of real writers. It was completely for myself. "
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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'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. "
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Simple
Enjoy
" 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 felt on the periphery of high school culture; one of those invisible creatures that walk the campus. I think it was a lot worse for my parents. "
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Walk
" Afghan people are just so tired of war. "
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Tired
People
Just
" I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. "
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Boring
Almost
" 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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Country
Precious
War
" Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. "
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Feel
Books
" I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting. "
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Write
Find
I Write
" 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
" For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. "
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Burden
Culture
" In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst. "
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You
Relationship
Love
" 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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Me
American
Culture
" I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. "
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Think
Time
" 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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" 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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She
Now
" 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. "
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Voice
" 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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Seasons
Story
Woods
" People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. "
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Find
Meaning
" 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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Back
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" 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. "
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School
Training
Medical
" 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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Romantic
Love
" I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed. "
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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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Go
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