If the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is… — 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
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
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
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
There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me -… — 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
I think the beard helps offset - it's the only hairstyle I can really pull off. But I'm often clean-shaven. I think,… — 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
