Mohsin Hamid Quotes

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Mohsin Hamid

Profession : Writer

Birth : July 23, 1971

Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped me find a future in which I, such a mongrel, could be comfortable.

Mohsin Hamid

It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration.

Mohsin Hamid

I studied about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War and about how the Constitution was written by men, many of whom were slave owners. So I suppose the travel ban strikes me as coming from an era I thought we'd left behind, but I guess we haven't entirely left it behind.

Mohsin Hamid

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

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I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

Mohsin Hamid

We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.

Mohsin Hamid

Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make creative leaps in our biology, in the diseases we can resist and the foods we can digest. And in our thinking and culture and politics, too.

Mohsin Hamid