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 always knew what you needed.

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver