Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 4, 1965
My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When ….
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 ….
It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was ….
The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be….
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting..
They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and li….
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned tha….
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure..
The finger cut, to save the hand..
There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the boo….
about clichés. Avoid them like the plague..
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….
Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who al….
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir.
After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcas….
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift..
If you were the poor, suffering was your currency..
On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts..
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when..
Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film..
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups..