Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

All 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.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

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

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.