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.

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.

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 pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Zindagi migzara (life goes on)