The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.

For you, a thousand times over

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

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.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.