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.
Interpretation
The writer prioritizes storytelling over preconceived ideas or agendas.
In this quote, Khaled Hosseini emphasizes the importance of the narrative in his writing process. He suggests that authentic stories emerge organically, without being constrained by broad concepts or specific goals, highlighting the purity and instinctiveness of creative expression.
In practice
This quote can be used in a writing workshop to inspire aspiring authors to trust their storytelling instincts.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.
I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.
I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.
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