Afghani - Novelist | March 4, 1965 -
Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.
Khaled Hosseini
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I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.
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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 surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.
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You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.
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Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.
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I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart.
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I do live with the very real possibility that we don't have endless stories to tell.
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I felt on the periphery of high school culture; one of those invisible creatures that walk the campus. I think it was a lot worse for my parents.
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You have to be able to interact with people whose politics you disagree with.
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I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.
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