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Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini (Persian: خالد حسیني‎ [ˈxɒled hoˈsejni]; /ˈhɑːlɛd hoʊˈseɪni/; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, a predicament 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.

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Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

Children, Chosen, Country, Life, Unease

she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day

Another Day, Breathe, Day, God, Grant, Grants

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Conscience, Doe, Goodness, Man, Men, Suffering

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.

Beginners, Day, Established, Genre Is, Night, Writing

I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

Except, Forget, Liars, Monster, Moving, Pain

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Book, Books, Continues, Success, Surprise, Surprise Me

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Everything, Honesty, Mean, Thing, Thinking

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

Become, Flood, Necks, Noose, Pulls, Rope

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Drinking, God, Important, Pork, Scotch

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

Nothing, Passes, Say, Say Anything, Word

I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.

Mars, Mullah, Robots, Surface, Telling, War

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

Downtrodden, Flock, Flocks, Injustice, Injustices, Needs

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

Active, Imaginative, Reading, Work

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

Children, Contradictions, Loathing, Parent, Play, Society

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

Annoyed, Arbitrary, Genetic, Granted, Ignorance

No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.

Knows, Mountain, Parwana, Secret, Thinking

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

Afghans, Caravan, Hassan, Movie, Moving, Today

I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.

Happiness, Head, Minutes, Pain, Spokes, Word

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

Extraordinary, Inspiring, Life, Odds, Suspect, Truth

You changed the subject. " "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. " "You know. " "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you.

Eye, Eyes, Girl, Sexy, Subject, Think

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