We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.
It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back. - Mohsin Hamid
It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.
- Mohsin Hamid
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood. - Mohsin Hamid
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die. - Mohsin Hamid
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.
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
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.
She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself. - Mohsin Hamid
She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves. - Mohsin Hamid
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet. - Mohsin Hamid
The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you … - Mohsin Hamid
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you …
Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change. - Mohsin Hamid
Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.
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