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Years Quotes by Mohsin Hamid
- 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 was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a…
- 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…
- In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions.…
- Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while…
- 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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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong