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Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly. — Mohsin Hamid

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection. — Mohsin Hamid

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of ... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians. — Mohsin Hamid

What else is belief but direction? — Mohsin Hamid

Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goals, your be-all and end-all, the mist-shrouded high-altitude spawning pond to your inner salmon? — Mohsin Hamid

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together. — Mohsin Hamid

The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy. — Mohsin Hamid

Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart. — Mohsin Hamid

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid

Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless. — Mohsin Hamid

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care. — Mohsin Hamid

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith. — Mohsin Hamid

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself. — Mohsin Hamid

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books ... — Mohsin Hamid

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid

[O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death. — Mohsin Hamid

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. — Mohsin Hamid

They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change. — Mohsin Hamid

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia. — Mohsin Hamid

Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously ... — Mohsin Hamid

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing. — Mohsin Hamid

when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind. — Mohsin Hamid

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. — Mohsin Hamid

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimize the importance of the individual and maximize the importance of the group. — Mohsin Hamid

Like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony ... — Mohsin Hamid

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics. — Mohsin Hamid

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 full-fledged New Yorker. — Mohsin Hamid

We are all migrants through time. — Mohsin Hamid

Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations. — Mohsin Hamid

She had bumped me out of the center of my world. I'd become a baby person, and it felt good, better than what had come before. — Mohsin Hamid

America is our enemy; America should give us more aid. — Mohsin Hamid

No believer is a bad believer. — Mohsin Hamid

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism. — Mohsin Hamid

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born. — Mohsin Hamid

Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them, — Mohsin Hamid

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all. — Mohsin Hamid

And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes. — Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. — Mohsin Hamid

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian. — Mohsin Hamid

stories of evil can be projected on them with as little difficulty as stories of good. — Mohsin Hamid

Literature helps us transcend ourselves. — Mohsin Hamid

To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you. — Mohsin Hamid

Status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth. — Mohsin Hamid

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response. — Mohsin Hamid

You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know. — Mohsin Hamid

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book. — Mohsin Hamid

I do not think that less is necessarily more. But I don't think that more is necessarily more either. - Mohsin Hamid — Mohsin Hamid

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet. — Mohsin Hamid

Without being conscious of it, you have allowed yourself to become fond of him not for the content of his character but for the fidelity of his echo. — Mohsin Hamid

(A revolver is) just a tool, really, like stapler. A stapler that punch through a person. Pin them. Drive blunt metal through flesh and bone. — Mohsin Hamid

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years. — Mohsin Hamid

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change. — Mohsin Hamid

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family. — Mohsin Hamid

In Pakistan, my friends and family are frightened, as they should be when the — Mohsin Hamid

most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time. — Mohsin Hamid

flying robots from an alien power regularly strike down from the skies and kill Pakistani citizens. — Mohsin Hamid

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred. — Mohsin Hamid

He was a man who discovered love through his penis. — Mohsin Hamid

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state. — Mohsin Hamid

Novel writing is solitary work. — Mohsin Hamid

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves. — Mohsin Hamid

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful. — Mohsin Hamid

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age. — Mohsin Hamid

Information is key at these things: no one wants to be caught holding social stock that's about to crash. — Mohsin Hamid

War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade. — Mohsin Hamid

The privileged liberal position: There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor. — Mohsin Hamid

Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned. — Mohsin Hamid

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is. — Mohsin Hamid

The end of the world can be cozy at times. — Mohsin Hamid

How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means? — Mohsin Hamid

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language. — Mohsin Hamid

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode. — Mohsin Hamid

Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine. — Mohsin Hamid

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Mohsin Hamid

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. — Mohsin Hamid

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid

In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was. — Mohsin Hamid

What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism. — Mohsin Hamid

Children are excellent judges of character, you know — Mohsin Hamid

... and time is the stuff of which a self is made. — Mohsin Hamid

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been. — Mohsin Hamid

ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says. — Mohsin Hamid

the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things, — Mohsin Hamid

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. — Mohsin Hamid

Novels are make-believe and play for adults. — Mohsin Hamid

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son. — Mohsin Hamid

He whispers a benediction and breathes it into the air, spreading his hope for you with a contraction of the lungs. — Mohsin Hamid

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. — Mohsin Hamid

But his dislike was so obvious, so intimate, that it got under my skin. — Mohsin Hamid

It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. — Mohsin Hamid

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. — Mohsin Hamid

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way. — Mohsin Hamid

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond - only younger, darker, and possibly better paid. — Mohsin Hamid

PARENTS FIRST MET they were — Mohsin Hamid

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take. — Mohsin Hamid

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid

The alliance between the US and Pakistan is thus predominantly between the US and the Pakistani military. — Mohsin Hamid

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?' — Mohsin Hamid