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Writing Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
- Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
- For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
- I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
- I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
- I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
- I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long…
- If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron…
- 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…
- Novel writing is solitary work.
- Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series…
- For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer.…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold