“You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your… — 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
The four places I've called home in my life have been Lahore, London, New York and California. And I have a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one When disparities… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day;… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“My father liked to wonder aloud whether the phoenix was re-created by the fire of its funeral pyre or transformed so that… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American.… — 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
I am a fairly mongrelized person - you know I've been a migrant my whole life, and it's hard to think of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“She is here. And she comes to you, and she does not speak, and the others do not notice her, and she… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London in those days… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying,… — 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
