Mohsin Hamid Quotes - Page 4

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• Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

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  Believe, Play, Adults

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

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  Race, Islam, Racist

  "Islam is not a monolith" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2013.

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• Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Land, Cities

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• In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is positive. I think there's certainly lots of hipster communities where having a beard makes me look a little bit less like a, you know, middle-aged fuddy-duddy. And there's some places in Pakistan where having a beard, you know, certain corporate contexts, certain social contexts, where it's not an advantage to have a beard.

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  Hipster, Thinking, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Pakistan is at last finding its voice. The US would be wise not to gag it" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Numbers, Media, Diaspora

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• Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

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  People, Different, Analysis

  Mohsin Hamid (2014). “Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

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  Book, Feelings, Upset

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

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  Book, Echoes, Ambiguity

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

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  Land, Interesting, Comedian

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• I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

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  Believe, Book, Years

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• I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me - and, you know, we live in a world where there is a constant feed from social media, the news, etc., of things that can scare us. And we become so anxious because human beings are meant - are designed to be sensitized to dangerous stuff.

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  Thinking, Media, Scare

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

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  Art, Writing, World

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

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  People, Different, Needs

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• Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

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  Self, Helping, Sufi

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• We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the water - maybe it is a shark. That yellow thing behind the tree - maybe it is a lion. You need to be scared.

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  Sharks, Yellow, Water

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

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  Writing

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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

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  Book, Writing, Years

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• I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

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  Book, Taj Mahal, Painting

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• I think wars, climate change, all that stuff is going to move people. And so I wanted to say, "What if the migration apocalypse occurs and it isn't an apocalypse at all?" Maybe we will still find ways to be happy and for our children and grandchildren to thrive and the world to move on.

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  Children, War, Moving

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• 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.

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  Hands, Facts, Facts Of Life

  "Occupational hazards" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2007.

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• Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.

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  Years, Two, Numbers

  "Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

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  Eye, My Own, Paid

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  America, World, Arms

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• I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

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  Vanity, Guy, Comfort

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