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Stories Quotes by Khaled Hosseini
- I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of…
- That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found…
- I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find…
- As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories…
- If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if…
- And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there.…
- Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan,…
- some stories don't need telling
- I guess some stories do not need telling.
- Sad stories make good books
- A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
- You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
- So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
- I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years.…
- But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems…
- I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother,…
- My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem…
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