As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It… — 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'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I… — 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
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave… — 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
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“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 Image
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
