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From Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
- 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…
- 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…
- I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
- 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 now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear…
- Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role…
- Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my…
- I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many…
- You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me.…
- I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And…
- We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is…
- Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of…
- Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.
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