Afghan Quote by 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

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

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

The Iraq War has thrown such a heavy shadow on Afghanistan that you can't hardly get any news about that now. I went to…

— Toby Keith

“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

“I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as…

— 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

“Marxism-Leninism offered little guidance to rural Afghan society, with its ancient concepts and ways.”

— Gregory Feifer

My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have been to Afghanistan many times, even before the Taliban collapsed. I was fascinated by the country.

— Kabir Khan

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy