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" There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle. "
Khaled Hosseini
Always
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Easy
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" Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working. "
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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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" When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that. "
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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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" 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. "
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Writing
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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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" 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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Men
Women
" 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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Choice
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" You have to be able to interact with people whose politics you disagree with. "
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Disagree
People
" You don't need a cheerleader. That's the worst thing that can happen to you. "
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You
Happen
" For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. "
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Burden
Culture
" 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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Fly
Book
" 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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Clear
Personal
" I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan. "
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Day
Awe
Before
" 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
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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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" 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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" 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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" You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished. "
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" I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. "
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Gift
Gifts
" 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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" 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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" I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S. "
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" One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we're all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots. "
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" There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government. "
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