By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write f….

Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I c….

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my he….

We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened u….

But then it passed, as all things do..

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me..

No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can….

Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much, or at times, they'r….

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.

She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups..

I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women i….

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight..

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create..

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what y….

There is a way to be good again..

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague..

For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan ….

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks..

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when..

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to liv….

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends ….