[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

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.

Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an event in his community, where we could dedicate an entire evening focused on the global refugee crisis, focused primarily on Afghanistan.

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

I 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.

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.