You Say Their Stories, It Is Gift

Writing Fiction Is The Act Of Weaving A Series Of Lies To Arrive At A Greater Truth.

The Novel [the Kite Runner] Came About As An Expansion Of That Original, Unpublished Short Story.

People Say That Eyes Are Windows To The Soul.

Life Just Doesn't Care About Our Aspirations, Or Sadness. It's Often Random, And It's Often Stupid And It's Often Completely Unexpected, And The Closures And The Epiphanies And Revelations We End Up Receiving From Life, Begrudgingly, Rarely Turn Out To Be The Ones We Thought.

The Problem, Of Course, Was That [he] Saw The World In Black And White. And He Got To Decide What Was Black And What Was White. You Can't Love A Person Who Lives That Way Without Fearing Him Too. Maybe Even Hating Him A Little.