People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

Zindagi migzara (life goes on)

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.