Zitat des Tages über Drachen / Kite:
For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
It's always easiest for me as a writer if I know I have a great ending. It can make everything else work. If you don't have a good ending, it's the hardest things in the world to come up with one. I always loved the ending of 'The Kite Runner,' and the scenes that are most faithful to the book are the last few scenes.
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.
I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
I've never flown a kite.
In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote 'The Kite Runner.' I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.