[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“for the book. Discuss the novel in light of this poem. What do you think he is saying about rightdoing and wrongdoing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“We’d each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya’s was sleep. Mine, as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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