Novel Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

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

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

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Khaled Hosseini

In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story,…

— 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

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