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Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Afghani - Novelist | March 4, 1965 -

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

Good Trust People Me Doctor You

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

Khaled Hosseini

Struggle Writing Easy Nothing Always

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Khaled Hosseini

Wife Write Everything Editor I Write

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.

Khaled Hosseini

Think Legend Wonder Now Living Why

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Khaled Hosseini

Books Far Read Physical Electronic

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

Khaled Hosseini

Up Pray Something Either Before

A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

Khaled Hosseini

Democracy Think Reality Political

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

Khaled Hosseini

Mind Me Ideas Story Down Never

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Khaled Hosseini

Writing First Difficulty Successful

I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.

Khaled Hosseini

Women I Am Law View Oppression

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Khaled Hosseini

Wait Choice Write See Tell Anything

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Khaled Hosseini

Success Me Surprise Books

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