I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don’t move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you’re born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you’ve lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
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 to believe what you believe and to say what you want to say. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
If you sit back and simply allow your country to be, it is highly unlikely to be the kind of country you want. You have to be active. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
Pakistan hasn’t been cast in the role of… interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
