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
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.
it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.
We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
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.