Mohsin Hamid Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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 than any arts council or bestower of grants.”

“Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.”

“Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.”

“A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.”

“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.”

“I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.”