Afghani - Novelist | March 4, 1965 -
You must not believe your own PR; it would be grotesque.
Khaled Hosseini
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I would like people to have an appreciation for what happened to women under the Taliban, as in 'A Thousand Splendid Suns.' I hope they get a sense of how connected we all are.
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My freshman year in college, I got a job working security. This was a high-tech building in Santa Clara, engineers coming in and out all the time.
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To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.
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Afghan people are just so tired of war.
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You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished.
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Obama's middle name differs from my last name by only two vowels. Does the McCain-Palin campaign view me as a pariah, too? Do McCain and Palin think there's something wrong with my name?
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I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
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I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
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I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
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