Afghanistan Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“I sat against one of the house’s clay walls. The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land... it surprised me. I’d been gone…

— Khaled Hosseini

Kabul Express' was very autobiographical but 'New York' is a wider and much larger journey. Though it has been drawn from my experiences that…

— Kabir Khan

“Kabul was fairly peaceful now and Grandpa seemed to have started wasting away since the bombing stopped. For the past twenty-three years the excitement…

— Petra Procházková

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy

“Lost Decency (a memoir) covers three phases of Afghanistan's last 50 years (Where it was? What Happened and Where it is headed?)”

— Atta Arghandiwal

Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an…

— Khaled Hosseini

My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Kabul is . . .” Idris searches for the right words. “A thousand tragedies per square mile.”

— 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

“marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.”

— Khaled Hosseini

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there…

— Sebastian Junger