If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“...depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I don't want to be anxious on my day-to-day life. I want to try to imagine a future I'd like to live… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the… — 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
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale… — 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
When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they… — 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
