List of Mohsin Hamid Quotes

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Mohsin Hamid
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I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "here's the answer." it's not an op-ed.
Writing Thinking People
I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.
Thinking Ideas People
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.
Writing Museums Cities
When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. so young men in america of, let's say, muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.
Zero Hero Men
In pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many other pakistani writers, they encounter ideas, notions, ways of thinking about the world, thinking about their society that are different. and fiction functions in a countercultural way as it does in america and certainly as it did in the, you know, '60s.
Thinking Ideas America
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.
Stories Function Novel
Living in a place like pakistan, very often you meet people who are migrating abroad. and sometimes you'll ask their parents, you know - you didn't try to stop them? like, why didn't you say, don't go - i'll miss you? stay with me. and, you know, people say, well, it's best for them. they have to go. and parents, you know, take on that sadness because they know it's better for their children if they leave.
Children Sadness People
We can open up our computers and skype with someone, and we see them. it's like looking through a window. and we can surf the internet through our phones, and it's like our consciousness is far away. or we can step through a airplane door and be in another continent a few hours away. so technology feels, to me, like the doors sort of already exist, at least emotionally.
Airplane Technology Doors
The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.
Ridiculous Bans Seems
My mother has been to mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. i come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. my family is generally nonprescriptive.
Mother Religious Dad
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.
Hipster Thinking America
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. when someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in their own imagination because it's still me whether i'm bearded or not.
Mirrors Imagination Beard
  • Born: 1971
  • Occupation: Writer
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