Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 4, 1965
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to min….
I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being..
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t..
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality..
Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignor….
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader..
Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence beca….
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S..
I have been a fan of comic books since childhood..
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion….
i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin..
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse..
You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next..
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that….
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative..
I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness ne….
What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry….
All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari..
You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most diffic….
My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write..
I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instincti….