The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — 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
“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
“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
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. — 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
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love… — 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
There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I see the creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing..and you will find all manner… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 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 use a flower petal for paper, And write you the sweetest letter,” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 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
You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the… — 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
