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 Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — 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
I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Maman had been a gifted writer. Pari has read every word Maman had written in French and every poem she had translated… — 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
