Khaled Hosseini Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Book, Color

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.15, A&C Black

• there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Faith, Real, Book

• One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mother, Hurt, Book

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.154, A&C Black

• I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, People, Rooms

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.80, Penguin

• 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.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Teach, Wells

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Sad stories make good books

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Stories, Good Book

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.70, A&C Black

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Reading, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.71, Bloomsbury Publishing

• I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Lure, Avoided

• I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Childhood, Fans

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

• I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Reading, School

• There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Writing, Romance

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

• The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Vcr, Giants

• 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.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Book, People

  "Novelist Khaled Hosseini". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 21, 2013.

• In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Years, Sabbatical

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

• I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Thinking, Community

• The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Surprise, Surprise Me

• I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Kindness, Book, Writing

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

• It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Love Is, Two

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

• There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Issues, Racism

• [Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Unique, Kites

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com.

• You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Clothes, Decision

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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