All stories I write are compulsive. Anything Iโve ever written was because I donโt have a choice. I write stories because I canโt wait to tell it, I canโt wait to see how it ends.
Khaled HosseiniHassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 โand all that followedโ was already laid in those first words.
Khaled Hosseini