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" We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time. "
Mohsin Hamid
Us
Each
Composed
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" I think that when we take the long view, the notion that some people are deemed less worthy of being able to move - to not have the right to cross borders - over time, that's going to seem as outmoded and as unfair, really, as racial discrimination or other kinds of discrimination. "
Mohsin Hamid
Think
View
Long
" Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough. "
Mohsin Hamid
Good
Writing
Broken
" 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. "
Mohsin Hamid
I Am
My Life
Hands
" When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode. "
Mohsin Hamid
Without
Go
Happy
" It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather, I recognize that one has to navigate these things... Am I aware of things that one could say that would be risky or that could be dangerous? Certainly I'm aware of those things. "
Mohsin Hamid
Living
Say
Dangerous
" I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me. "
Mohsin Hamid
Family
City
Cousins
" 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. "
Mohsin Hamid
Strength
World
Break
" Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion. "
Mohsin Hamid
Faith
Born
Lawyers
" Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state. "
Mohsin Hamid
Up
Shadow
Lived
" I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him. "
Mohsin Hamid
Over
Want
Winning
" 'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing. "
Mohsin Hamid
Two
Stronger
Love
" It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration. "
Mohsin Hamid
Migration
Very
Imagine
" I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way. "
Mohsin Hamid
Story
Fact
Natural
" I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. "
Mohsin Hamid
Am
Experience
I Am
" 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. "
Mohsin Hamid
Over
Writing
Art
" I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople. "
Mohsin Hamid
Incompetence
President
Degree
" Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics. "
Mohsin Hamid
Characteristics
Race
Islam
" I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book. "
Mohsin Hamid
Painting
Rather
Than
" 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. "
Mohsin Hamid
Comfort
Feel
Comfort Zone
" How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means? "
Mohsin Hamid
Means
Big
How
" Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in... you're exposed to people with more. "
Mohsin Hamid
People
Car
City
" I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and try to cling to one aspect of that identity to describe what they are: American, Republican, Muslim. These are really incomplete. "
Mohsin Hamid
Think
Stop
People
" I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe. "
Mohsin Hamid
Believe
Say
Problems
" The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable. "
Mohsin Hamid
Simple
City
Live
" When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be. "
Mohsin Hamid
Kind
Mindset
Growing Up
" I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' "
Mohsin Hamid
Boat
You
Think
" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "
Mohsin Hamid
Live
Deal
Life
" Novel writing is solitary work. "
Mohsin Hamid
Solitary
Novel
Work
" For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world. "
Mohsin Hamid
Great
World
Two
" I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else. "
Mohsin Hamid
Confidence
Play
People