Khaled Hosseini Quotes (58 quotes)

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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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„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 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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„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.“
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„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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„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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„For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.“
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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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„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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„The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.“
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„The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.“
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„My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.“
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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 have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.“
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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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„For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.“
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„I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.“
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„Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.“
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„Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.“
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„Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.“
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Khaled Hosseini
Author born: March 04, 1965
Nationality: Afghani
Author Profession: Novelist

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