Mohsin Hamid

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each…

— Mohsin Hamid

A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack…

— Mohsin Hamid

“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate”

— Mohsin Hamid

“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in…

— Mohsin Hamid

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

— Mohsin Hamid

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an…

— 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

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

— Mohsin Hamid

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a…

— 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

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

— Mohsin Hamid

NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes…

— Mohsin Hamid

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

— Mohsin Hamid

“When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all…

— Mohsin Hamid

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter -…

— Mohsin Hamid

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

— Mohsin Hamid

“...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...”

— Mohsin Hamid

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the…

— Mohsin Hamid

I would have bet money that Britain would not vote to leave the EU, and I would have been wrong. I would…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps…

— Mohsin Hamid

“It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case…

— Mohsin Hamid

“I know I'm standing still, but I feel like I've stumbled and I'm starting to fall.”

— Mohsin Hamid