Writer Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

— Khaled Hosseini

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't…

— Khaled Hosseini

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of…

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— 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

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 don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— 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

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's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life,…

— Khaled Hosseini

You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the…

— Khaled Hosseini

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I…

— Khaled Hosseini

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with…

— 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

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

— 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 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

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love…

— Khaled Hosseini

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a…

— Khaled Hosseini

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