A Quote by Khaled Hosseini

I never thought what I wrote was good enough to be published. I thought of myself as completely detached from that constellation of real writers. It was completely for myself.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani - Novelist
Born: March 4, 1965

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