Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseiniis an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage". He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of The Kite Runner he retired from medicine to write full-time...
NationalityAfghani
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 March 1965
CityKabul, Afghanistan
Khaled Hosseini quotes about
Blood is a powerful thing
The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.
You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.
She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.
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.
these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
But then it passed, as all things do.
Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.
If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.