Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 4, 1965
Zindagi migzara (life goes on).
Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back..
Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an event in his community, wh….
I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the m….
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting..
All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman..
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 ….
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls..
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time..
Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life..
Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything..
Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had do….
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose..
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections..
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..
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….
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out..
The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or t….
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I ….
She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I aske….
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is….