Afghanistan Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

“Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls”

— Khaled Hosseini

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

— Khaled Hosseini

I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported…

— Khaled Hosseini

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride,…

— Khaled Hosseini

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their…

— Khaled Hosseini

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

— Khaled Hosseini

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

— Khaled Hosseini

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody,…

— Khaled Hosseini

There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to…

— Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very…

— Khaled Hosseini

For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to…

— Khaled Hosseini

Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an…

— Khaled Hosseini

[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war…

— Khaled Hosseini

I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a…

— Khaled Hosseini

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as…

— Khaled Hosseini

In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban…

— Khaled Hosseini

Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always…

— Khaled Hosseini

The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden…

— Khaled Hosseini

When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming…

— Khaled Hosseini

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice…

— Khaled Hosseini

I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a…

— Khaled Hosseini

I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped…

— Khaled Hosseini

Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not…

— Khaled Hosseini

At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War…

— Khaled Hosseini

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than…

— Khaled Hosseini

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets…

— Khaled Hosseini

A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form…

— Khaled Hosseini

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

— Khaled Hosseini

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes…

— Khaled Hosseini

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of…

— Khaled Hosseini

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

— Khaled Hosseini

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans,…

— Khaled Hosseini

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

— Khaled Hosseini

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students…

— Khaled Hosseini

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant…

— Khaled Hosseini

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

— Khaled Hosseini

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the…

— Khaled Hosseini