“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
“even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able… — 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
I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“She’s finished her cigarette but hasn’t put it out properly, so it’s still smoking in the ashtray. I crush mine into it,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“... Saeed's father wept only when he was alone in his room, silently, without tears, his body seized as though by a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Yes, the pursuit of love and the pursuit of wealth have much in common. Both have the potential to inspire, motivate, uplift… — 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
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
So much of our conversation about love is possessive. "You are mine. And if you stop being mine, I will hate you."… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Saeed was certain he was in love. Nadia was not certain what exactly she was feeling, but she was certain it had… — 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
I personally tend to believe that there is a right to migration, the same way there's a right to love whom you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Now, though, in Marin, Saeed prayed even more, several times a day, and he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for… — 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
