We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Our countries are weaker: they cannot protect us from imported goods, they can't protect us from climate change, they cannot protect us… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think we should be prepared, given environmental and political change for large-scale migration. If sea levels rise and 200 million people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm often surprised that, you know, you encounter all types of humanity. And very often, there are some very decent people who… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago -… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
You know, you get a bad review as a writer, you remember it for 10 years. You get a hundred good reviews,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Living in a place like Pakistan, very often you meet people who are migrating abroad. And sometimes you'll ask their parents, you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of… — 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
