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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. I've never had any formal training in writing.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Active
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
- Grips
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- Nov 07, 2020
American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.
- Electronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.
- Kite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
- Pray
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020