James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

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 for a living.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.