Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamidis a British Pakistani novelist and writer. His novels are Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionWriter
CountryPakistan
country pakistan diaspora
Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.
friday pakistan horror
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.
mean bigs resorts
How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
writing silence needs
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
home language ifs
I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.
believe book years
I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
writing novelists researchers
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
strong moving thinking
I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.
growing-up shadow pakistan
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
writing novel invitations
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.
writing
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
hands facts facts-of-life
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.
america world arms
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.
thinking encounters should
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.