Top 83 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

About Mohsin Hamid

These are some quotes by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid Writer, who was born in 1971.

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

Mohsin Hamid

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

Mohsin Hamid

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

Mohsin Hamid

I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally.

I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally.

Mohsin Hamid

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

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

Mohsin Hamid

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

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

Mohsin Hamid

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

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

Mohsin Hamid

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

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

Mohsin Hamid

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

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

Mohsin Hamid

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

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

Mohsin Hamid

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