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Natalia
Natalia asked Khaled Hosseini:

When you start writing a new book, have you already thought how it will be? Do you know how it will end? Or do you simply write and the plot develops by itself?

Khaled Hosseini I plan very little and I outline nothing. I start with an idea or an image or a line of dialogue and see where it leads me. Because I never know what the next page will contain, let alone the end of the book, I am perpetually surprised by the course that my characters take. The writing process is as full of surprises and twists for me as the reading experience is for my readers. I love the spontaneity of writing this way, the possibilities left open, the feeling that I am not constrained or committed to any given path. Every day, I am surprised by something. It may not be the most efficient way of writing, but it has served me well thus far.
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Pepperpots
Pepperpots asked Khaled Hosseini:

Dear Khaled Hosseini, I very much enjoyed your book, 'And The Mountains Echoed'. My favourite story was that of Nabi. Why did you choose to have the novel set of several decades and in many places? Was it because it allowed you to more easily explore themes rather than focus on a single story set in one particular time and place? Thank you.

Fatma Sajwani
Fatma Sajwani asked Khaled Hosseini:

Given that you lived a big part of your life away from Afghanistan, How did you learn about the pains and the experiences of Afghans? Don't you think maybe because you did not live those pains that you wrote about Afghanistan in a way different from how an Afghan who lived there would write? Regardless of your response I love your books....

Clint Paul
Clint Paul asked Khaled Hosseini:

How you connect a story with the current social circumstances ???

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