Mohsin Hamid Quotes
- Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
- For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
- Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
- How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
- I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.
- I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
- I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
- I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.
- I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
- I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
- I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories.…
- I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.
- I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a…
- I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.
- I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort…
- If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
- Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
- Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
- Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
- Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.