913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

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

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.