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Reader Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
- Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.
- 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…
- A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
- 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?'
- 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…
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