Mohsin Hamid quotes

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. (Mohsin Hamid)

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

Mohsin Hamid

It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.

Mohsin Hamid

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

Mohsin Hamid

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

Mohsin Hamid

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

Mohsin Hamid

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

Mohsin Hamid

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

Mohsin Hamid

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

Mohsin Hamid

Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

Mohsin Hamid

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him. (Mohsin Hamid)

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Mohsin Hamid

The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they're not particularly fattening. So don't share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.

Mohsin Hamid

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

Mohsin Hamid

You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.

Mohsin Hamid

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

Mohsin Hamid

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

Mohsin Hamid

when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

Mohsin Hamid

To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.

Mohsin Hamid

She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon. Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride. (Mohsin Hamid)

... status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.

Mohsin Hamid

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

Mohsin Hamid

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

Mohsin Hamid

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

Mohsin Hamid

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