I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my… — 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
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
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,… — 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
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
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
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
