Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I personally tend to believe that there is a right to migration, the same way there's a right to love whom you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“She’s finished her cigarette but hasn’t put it out properly, so it’s still smoking in the ashtray. I crush mine into it,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“... Saeed's father wept only when he was alone in his room, silently, without tears, his body seized as though by a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
So much of our conversation about love is possessive. "You are mine. And if you stop being mine, I will hate you."… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Yes, the pursuit of love and the pursuit of wealth have much in common. Both have the potential to inspire, motivate, uplift… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Now, though, in Marin, Saeed prayed even more, several times a day, and he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“She is here. And she comes to you, and she does not speak, and the others do not notice her, and she… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Saeed was certain he was in love. Nadia was not certain what exactly she was feeling, but she was certain it had… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes you love… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
![“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he's circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He circles lower and lower, spinning around the candle in…” quote by Mohsin Hamid](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/401/mohsin-hamid-798_fire_the-poets-say-some-moths-will-do-anythin_3223528.jpg)
