mohsin-hamid

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Novels are make-believe and play for adults.
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I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.
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When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.
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How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
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Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
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I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.
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Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
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I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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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.
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