I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. … - Khaled Hosseini

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Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight. . I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

Khaled Hosseini

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.

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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

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You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

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