America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism. — 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
My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated… — 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
I studied about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War and about how the Constitution was written by men,… — 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
The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would… — 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
I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making… — 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
