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

Mohsin Hamid

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.
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A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
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Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.
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What else is belief but direction?
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The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they’re not particularly fattening. So don’t share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.
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If my daughter wanted to wear a headscarf and dress in a religiously conservative way, I would be heartbroken. But if she were to decide to do that and she were to live in a place where people said she couldn't do that, I would be entirely committed to her right to do so.
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Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
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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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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
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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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Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
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Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.
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Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.
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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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The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
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And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.
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So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.
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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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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.
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