Khaled Hosseini Quotes - Page 8

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• 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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Another Day, Breathe, Grants

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.

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  Beautiful, Guilt, Battle

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

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  Night, Wind, Tree

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.21, A&C Black

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• I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

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  Humility, Pride, People

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• If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

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  Pain, Cutting, Blow

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.59, Penguin

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• They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.

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  Heart, Water, Wade

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.400, A&C Black

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• There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir

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  People, Brotherhood, Amir

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• Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

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  Writing, Stories, Kites

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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

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  Rope, Necks, Flood

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.302, A&C Black

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• Life is a train, get on board.

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  Boards, Life Is, Train

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.161, A&C Black

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• Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

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  Giving, Sustenance

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.231, A&C Black

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• 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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  Writing, Night, Genre Is

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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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  Writing, Waiting, Choices

  "Author Khaled Hosseini on The Kite Runner: The Rt Interview". Interview with Rachel Sandor, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

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• It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.

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  Writing, Work Out, Worry

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• It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

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  Waste, Talent, Donkey

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.36, Penguin

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• Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

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  Lasts, Strange, Strange Things

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.175, A&C Black

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• You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

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  Hurt, Pain, Doctors

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• You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

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  Giving, Stories

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.80, Penguin

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

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  Book, Lure, Avoided

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• Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

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  Sunflower, Attention, Sun

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.11, A&C Black

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• Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

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  Breathing, Air, Bricks

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.27, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Stories, Elements, Way

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• Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

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  Textbooks, Littles, Firsts

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.54, A&C Black

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• Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

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  Eye, Garden, Grieving

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.365, A&C Black

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• She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .

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  Fire, Looks, Ends

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