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
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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.
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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.