Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro.

The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.

They say, find a purpose in life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift

They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.

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.

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.

Im a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, Ive 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.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. Ive never had any formal training in writing.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

I was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldnt tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.

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.

There isnt, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”

“In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldnt, in the end, save it all.”

“დრო სიზმარივითაა, იქ წყდება, სადაც თვითონ მოესურვება.”

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”