All Mohsin Hamid Quotes
- It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. Effect
- The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son. Father
- Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd… Begins
- What else is belief but direction? Belief
- If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all. All
- One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty… Address
- Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through Book
- Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves. Funny
- In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the… Afford
- Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary… Ancient
- For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the… Bend
- What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the… Acid
- The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they’re not particularly fattening. So don’t share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can. Delicious
- Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but… Alchemy
- I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what… Boy
- Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family. Bloodied
- Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. Another Person
- A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. Encounter
- America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a… Affair
- As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact… Aware