There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It’s hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
I don’t listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
When I’m writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
My earliest memories are of watching ‘Star Trek’ and ‘MASH’ while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
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 Read Quote
