Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.

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 one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.