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.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Khaled Hosseini

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I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

Khaled Hosseini


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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Khaled Hosseini

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sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

Khaled Hosseini


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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

Khaled Hosseini

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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

Khaled Hosseini


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she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.

Khaled Hosseini


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She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

Khaled Hosseini


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But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

Khaled Hosseini


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