347 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

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.

How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.