And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally… — 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
I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think wars, climate change, all that stuff is going to move people. And so I wanted to say, "What if the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine,… — 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
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really… — 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
Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way… — 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
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
For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and… — 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
I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be… — 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
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
