Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 4, 1965
Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila..
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it..
It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?.
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour..
When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out in the open under tents, some….
It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good..
A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer..
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….
The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it….
I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played ….
There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, d….
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason..
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone..
I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situatio….
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated..
I think he loved us equally, but differently..
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequenc….
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off….
I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the winter time, westerns with John ….
I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people..
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for my….