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Writing Quotes by Khaled Hosseini
- 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.
- Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
- I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
- My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.
- There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
- The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing…
- I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read…
- 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 going to work…
- Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
- The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
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