Mohsin Hamid

“No believer is a bad believer.”

— Mohsin Hamid

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

— Mohsin Hamid

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Language lacks the power to describe Faith.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“... and time is the stuff of which a self is made.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“Power comes from becoming change.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of…

— Mohsin Hamid

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

— Mohsin Hamid

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Saeed was certain he was in love. Nadia was not certain what exactly she was feeling, but she was certain it had…

— Mohsin Hamid

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

— Mohsin Hamid

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

— Mohsin Hamid

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

— Mohsin Hamid

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

— Mohsin Hamid

Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science…

— Mohsin Hamid

I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that…

— Mohsin Hamid

I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days…

— Mohsin Hamid

“When my turn came, I said I hoped one day to be the dictator of an Islamic republic with nuclear capability; the…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be…

— Mohsin Hamid

I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my…

— Mohsin Hamid

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's…

— Mohsin Hamid

Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make…

— Mohsin Hamid

With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of…

— Mohsin Hamid

So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have…

— Mohsin Hamid

If the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out,…

— Mohsin Hamid

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,…

— Mohsin Hamid

“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen.…

— Mohsin Hamid

“...the fact that Urdu was spoken by taxicab drivers; the presence, only two blocks from my East Village apartment, of a samosa-…

— Mohsin Hamid

“...not one of these worthy restaurateurs would consider placing a western dish on his menu. No, we are surrounded instead by the…

— Mohsin Hamid

“In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man…

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“She is here. And she comes to you, and she does not speak, and the others do not notice her, and she…

— Mohsin Hamid

“I walk in the direction she tells me. I feel my pores opening, sweat and heat radiating out of my body. A…

— Mohsin Hamid

“As he sat he felt the outside of her thigh, firm, against his, and she felt the outside of his, likewise firm,…

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“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me…

— Mohsin Hamid

“A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in…

— Mohsin Hamid