Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up..

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film..

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar..

In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer on….

Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly….

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, ….

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either in….

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle….

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music..

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task….

I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short pe….

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 t….

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult..

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospit….

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, a….

In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing….

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always..

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent..

At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror, and tha….

A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for ….

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice ….