When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined… — 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
I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago -… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual… — 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
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
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
I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless… — 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
Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of… — 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
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
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
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
If my daughter wanted to wear a headscarf and dress in a religiously conservative way, I would be heartbroken. But if she… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good… — 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
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
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
“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
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“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
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes you love… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
