It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
Khaled HosseiniNever mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.
Khaled HosseiniAll stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.
Khaled HosseiniPerspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
Khaled Hosseini