Books Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

— Khaled Hosseini

Sad stories make good books

— Khaled Hosseini

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

— Khaled Hosseini

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

— Khaled Hosseini

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

— Khaled Hosseini

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

— Khaled Hosseini

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

— Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“for the book. Discuss the novel in light of this poem. What do you think he is saying about rightdoing and wrongdoing…

— Khaled Hosseini

In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that…

— Khaled Hosseini

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense…

— Khaled Hosseini

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In…

— Khaled Hosseini

There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in…

— Khaled Hosseini

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is…

— Khaled Hosseini

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness…

— Khaled Hosseini

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and…

— Khaled Hosseini

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing…

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

— Khaled Hosseini

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

— Khaled Hosseini

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of…

— Khaled Hosseini

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to…

— Khaled Hosseini

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

— Khaled Hosseini

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been…

— Khaled Hosseini

You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be…

— Khaled Hosseini

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

— Khaled Hosseini

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really…

— Khaled Hosseini

“You know the old bit," he said. "You're on a deserted island. You can have five books. Which do you choose? I…

— Khaled Hosseini