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Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
Born: Mar 4, 1965
Life Me People Think Writing You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight. Khaled Hosseini
Life Faith You Patience Perseverance School Discipline Weather Addiction Definite Sight Crises Willingness Ability Plus Fact Through Self-Confidence Caffeine Qualities Accept Exhaustion End Optimism Get Forgo Residency Medical Medical School Need Sleep
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought. Khaled Hosseini
Life Sadness Care Random Thought Stupid Our Out Rarely About Revelations End Up Unexpected Often Just Turn Aspirations Receiving
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. Khaled Hosseini
People Find Most Redemption Unusual Human Meaning Connections
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. Khaled Hosseini
Thoughts World Feelings Ocean Own Every Universe Everyone Our Way Crippled Ourselves Inside Insights Individual His Truly Walking Person Inability Street Her Present
Syria's neighboring countries cannot and should not carry the cost of caring for refugees on their own. The international community must share the burden with them by providing economic aid, investing in development in those countries, and opening their own borders to desperate Syrian families looking for protection. Khaled Hosseini
Protection Burden Desperate Looking Own Community Aid Caring Those Syria Syrian Neighboring Carry Must Borders Cost Economic Share Investing Development Countries Opening Providing Families Refugees Cannot Them Should International International Community
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
Life Time Sometimes Long Long Time Nothing Action Every Consequences Our Takes Understand Happens Fully Actions Series Vacuum
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. Khaled Hosseini
Music Musicians Culture Destruction Films Books Giant Vandalism Scene Devastating Had Buddhas Countless Most Taliban Cultural Infamous Tapes Effect Afghan Artistic Jailed Being Burned Painters Paintings Acts Filmmakers
You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished. Khaled Hosseini
Time You Mind Important Filters Diminished Distorted Through Computer Onto Write Computer Screen True Idea Feels Because Genuine Becomes Passes Been Hand Screen Different Page Your By The Time
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. Khaled Hosseini
Love Relationship You Anger Yourself Parents Become Society Loathing Perceive Angst Tension How Contradictions Role Afghan Children Central Who Fundamental Lives Play
A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies. Khaled Hosseini
Me Doctor Fighting Nineties Sections Anesthesia Hospital He Supplies Performed Because Without Were Often Early
My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal. Khaled Hosseini
Memories Conservative Country Before Changed Liberal Final Progressive Tehran Everything Way Religious Vastly Mistaken Still Go Years Up Than Essentially Different Grew Beirut Now
I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working. Khaled Hosseini
Hate Resting Restless Feel Preference Working
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children. Khaled Hosseini
Happiness Life Love Future Good Me You People Affection Expectation Sense Books Security About Something Like Than Children Want Bigger Predictability Ordinary Ordinary People Them Really Reasonable Who Street Belong
In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote 'The Kite Runner.' I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do. Khaled Hosseini
Life Time Dark Runner See Seemed Constraints More Only Kite Had Wrote Limited How Am Than Endless Realise Far Aware Things Chance Number
Writing for me is largely about rewriting. Khaled Hosseini
Me Writing About Rewriting Largely
The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear. Khaled Hosseini
You Strange World Burden Rest Think Too Dilemma Carry About Bear Voice Writer Supposed Educate Any Banner Far Your Homeland
There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government. Khaled Hosseini
Government Corruption Society Weak No Excuse Excuse Always Afghanistan Informal Central Central Government
I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Khaled Hosseini
Life Myself You Old Stage Other Drawn Enter Find About Foot Poised New Period Still Leave Years Childhood Behind Where Children
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
Great Poetry Most Tradition Afghanistan Form Literature Even Even Now Now
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
Quality Writing Sense Think Films Cinematic Books Way Say Recognize Would Some Finish Scene Finishes Tendency Been Place Hollywood Image
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
People Conservative Tribal Nation Live Out Rural Percent Almost Countryside Very Afghanistan Where Medieval
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. Khaled Hosseini
Time Women Think Emancipation Inside Through Over Come Gradually Afghanistan Afghans Themselves
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. Khaled Hosseini
Culture Burden Kind Entire Represent Novelist
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
Intertwined Broad Books Intimate Claim Lay Clear Been Inextricably Historian Historical Personal Being Should
American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated. Khaled Hosseini
Time Me You Culture School Girl Immigrants High High School Guys Had Got Hispanics Very American Graduated African African Americans Grips By The Time
The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime. Khaled Hosseini
Long Nighttime Airplane Only Read Bed Where Places Two
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