Childhood Quote by Mohsin Hamid

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people…

— Mohsin Hamid

I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who…

— Mohsin Hamid

The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would look like…

— Mohsin Hamid

I personally tend to believe that there is a right to migration, the same way there's a right to love whom you like and…

— Mohsin Hamid

I think we should be prepared, given environmental and political change for large-scale migration. If sea levels rise and 200 million people in Bangladesh…

— Mohsin Hamid

“All over the world people were slipping away from where they had been, from once fertile plains cracking with dryness, from seaside villages gasping…

— Mohsin Hamid

I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important.

— Mohsin Hamid

I think wars, climate change, all that stuff is going to move people. And so I wanted to say, "What if the migration apocalypse…

— Mohsin Hamid

It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration.

— Mohsin Hamid

Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.

— Mohsin Hamid

“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never been told.”

— Willa Cather

Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.

— Elisabeth Moss