In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
Khaled HosseiniI don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.
Khaled HosseiniIt is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
Khaled Hosseini