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Book Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
- Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
- 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…
- I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
- I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
- I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.
- 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?'
- As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,'…
- It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million…
- But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform…
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