347 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they’re not particularly fattening. So don’t share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.

Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

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.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

Novel writing is solitary work.

You feel a love you know you will never be able to adequately explain or express to him, a love that flows one way, down the generations, not in reverse, and is understood and reciprocated only when time has made of a younger generation an older one.

But surely it is the gist that matters; I am, after all, telling you a history, and in history, as I suspect you – an American – will agree, it is the thrust of one’s narrative that counts, not the accuracy of one’s details.