Books Quote by Mohsin Hamid Download Open image “I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.” — Mohsin Hamid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Desire In the past Novel Past Place Time Writing
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel. — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot… — Scarface Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
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… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
