Khaled Hosseini Novel Quotations

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

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.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.