If you sit back and simply allow your country to be, it is highly unlikely to be the kind of country you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
You know, very often, if you look at the kinds of communications that they're getting in an ISIS recruiting video, the videos… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,'… — 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
I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
