Khaled Hosseini, American novelist, physician

born:
March 4, 1965 in Kabul Afghanistan

known for:
The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, And The Mountains Echoed

web site:  http://www.khaledhosseini.com/

Whatever the readers feel when they’re reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I’m writing it.
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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.
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For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

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