Khaled Hosseini Quotes

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• A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver
• But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
• Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost…
• Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence…
• Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
• Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
• Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And
• My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want…
• 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 read.
• Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the…
• When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means…
• I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
• Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
• Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
• I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things…
• Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and…
• Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
• For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
• I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
• I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

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