Afghanistan Quote by Richard Curtis

The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but…

— Annia Ciezadlo

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

— Khaled Hosseini

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct…

— Mark Twain

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

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report,…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“Perhaps it is because no one requires more than a charming illusion of action in the developing world. If policy makers know little about…

— Rory Stewart

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

— Khaled Hosseini

As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely…

— Heather Brooke

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

— 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

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

— Barack Obama

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for…

— John R. Allen