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For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
Mohsin Hamid
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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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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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When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something moves in to fill it. Writing books is like that. It's mostly about freeing up time, doing nothing, and in that time some writing starts to happen. We need to figure out how to maintain those voids.
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Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.
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The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would look like in the future. So I think it's important for writers and artists to try to imagine that.
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The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
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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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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
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Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.
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There's a reason prophets perform miracles language lacks the power to describe faith.
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We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
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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.
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If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
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The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.
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When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.
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If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.
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We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.
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Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
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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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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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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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