Mohsin Hamid Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do that anyway. I love that we will never say exactly what we mean, but we will forever keep trying.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mean, Forever, Wish

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• I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Home, Language, Ifs

• Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Numbers, Media, Diaspora

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

  Mohsin Hamid

  Miracle, Language, Reason

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.193, Penguin Books India

• I have a funny relationship to language. When I came to California when I was three I spoke Urdu fluently and I didn't speak a word of English. Within a few months I lost all my Urdu and spoke only English and then I learned Urdu all over again when I was nine. Urdu is my first language but it's not as good as my English and it's sort of become my third language. English is my best language but was the second language I learned.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Funny Relationship, California, Three

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