Marriage can wait, education cannot.

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Marriage Wait Education Cannot

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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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Appreciate Baseball Been Born

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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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Gift Gifts Give Like

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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

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Distracting Find I Write Listen

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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.

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Any Background Been Biology

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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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Afghanistan Even Even Now Form

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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

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Been Books Cinematic Films

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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

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Afghanistan Am Been Being

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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

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Action Actions Consequences Every

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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

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Alive Fiction Kept Literary

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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

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Books Feel I Feel Readers

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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

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Afghanistan Almost Conservative Countryside

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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

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Afghanistan Come Emancipation Gradually

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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

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Burden Culture Entire Kind

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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

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Ancient Child Father Grandmother

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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

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Been Being Books Broad

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Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

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Act Active Imaginative Reading

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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

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Enjoy Family Life Live

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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

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About Afghanistan Although Books

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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

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Hippies Peaceful Popular Quiet

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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.

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Being Doctor Good Liked

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In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

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Accusing Always Create Finds

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

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About Always Difficult Easy

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

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Editor Everything I Write Reads

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The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

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Airplane Bed I Can Long

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

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Actual Avoided Books Electronic

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I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

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Both Course Disdain Extremism

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

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After Before Blown Either

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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.

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Afghanistan Anytime Democracy Dream

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People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

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Connections Find Human Meaning

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

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Difficulty Directly First How

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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.

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Anything Because Choice Compulsive

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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

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Books Me Success Surprise

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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.

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About Between Child Economic

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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

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About Largely Me Rewriting

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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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Actually Boo Got Many

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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

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Almost Boring Fear Pathological

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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

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Afghan Been Few Group

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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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Day Every Every Day Feel

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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

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Guess Impossible Know Need

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"40 Khaled Hosseini Quotes & Sayings

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Khaled Hosseini

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

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

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

I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Khaled Hosseini

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Khaled Hosseini

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Khaled Hosseini

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Khaled Hosseini

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Khaled Hosseini

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Khaled Hosseini

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

Khaled Hosseini

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

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

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Khaled Hosseini

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

Khaled Hosseini

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Khaled Hosseini

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Khaled Hosseini

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

People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Khaled Hosseini

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

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

Khaled Hosseini

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.

Khaled Hosseini

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Khaled Hosseini

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Khaled Hosseini

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Khaled Hosseini

Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.