If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.

There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.