“I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner
“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
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