913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Hassan 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 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.