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Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.
Mohsin Hamid
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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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The monolithic view that many Americans have of Pakistani culture is as inaccurate as the monolithic view that many Pakistanis have of American culture.
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When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.
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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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It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.
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When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
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I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?
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A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
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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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I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.
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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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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.
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Yes, Manila had its slums one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.
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My earliest memories are of watching Star Trek and MASH while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.
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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.
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The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
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Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.
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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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I am not much of a researcher as a novelist I write mainly from experience.
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Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
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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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