You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.

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

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.