Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."
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"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
"A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché."
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."
Khaled Hosseini
"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. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing."
Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns
"‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance."
Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns
"Marriage can wait, education cannot."
Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns
"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
"In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst."
Khaled Hosseini
"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 not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters."
Khaled Hosseini
"I was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege."
Khaled Hosseini
"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 that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on."
Khaled Hosseini
"I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing."
Khaled Hosseini
"In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote 'The Kite Runner.' I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do."
Khaled Hosseini
"I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things."
Khaled Hosseini
"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 their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children."
Khaled Hosseini
"Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight."
Khaled Hosseini
"Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro."
Khaled Hosseini
"Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself."
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
"there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is."
Khaled Hosseini
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