I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.
From Khaled Hosseini
There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.
My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.
The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
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.
The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
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