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Khaled Hosseini Quotes

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.

Khaled Hosseini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: afghani
Birth: March 4, 1965

Topics

Learn You Want Never Write Things

I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

Hate People Trying Pig Skin True

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

Writing Soccer Crisis Say Watching

The Obamas have been a great example for the country, and I think people are getting a bit nostalgic for that now when they see what some of the alternatives might be.

Great People Think Country Now See

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Liberty Afford Itself Liberties

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

Friend Best Parenting Best Friend Us

Did you know that you can live on Ensure for a year? A person can live for a really long time just lying in bed and drinking Ensure - way longer than you think.

Live Time Think Year Long You

I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

Mary Steenburgen

Love Great Horse Person Whole Genre

For me, it's important to stay healthy more than it is to have one good victory.

Good Me Victory Healthy Important

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Power Struggle Man Memory Forgetting

I would wear sunglasses all the time if it wasn't looked down upon in certain situations. I always thought I'd be someone who wore sunglasses like Roy Orbison.

Time Sunglasses Thought Someone Down

I wanted to find a way to merge my taste as an art and creative director with my new little obsessions: babies and motherhood and all of that. So I began working on my website, Romy and the Bunnies, which is named after my daughter, Romy.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Daughter Art Creative Motherhood New

If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.

Leader Time Best Together Effort

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