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Mohsin Hamid (Urdu: محسن حمید‎; born 23 July 1971) is a Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant. His novels are Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), and Exit West (2017).

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Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

Adults, Believe, Novels, Play

NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people. " And that's not what makes you love diversity in NYC or anywhere. What makes you love diversity is because you live in it and you experience it.

Big, Diversity, Nyc, People, Rights, Sign

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.

Act, Political, Think, Thinking, Writer, Writing

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Human, Human Beings, Humans, Novel, Novels, Take

What else is belief but direction?

Belief, Direction

I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results in a deeper understanding as opposed to the novel proclaiming this is what it is right and this is what is wrong.

Allows, Fiction, Living, Right, Thinking, Understanding

I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again. " But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.

America, Britain, Days, Political, Talking, Thinking

For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do that anyway. I love that we will never say exactly what we mean, but we will forever keep trying.

Anyway, Forever, Mean, Precisely, Say, Wish

You know, very often, if you look at the kinds of communications that they're getting in an ISIS recruiting video, the videos that, you know, that one hears of as radicalizing them, these are like action movies. And so in the sense, it's that by closing off the idea that young Muslims and particularly young Muslim men can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.

Action, American, Communication, Hero, Men, Video

In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.

Fashion, Gay, Like, Men, Talk, Vehemently

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.

Opportunity, Land, Cities, Impossible, Place, Come

We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons.

Founder, Like, Living, People, Rights, Thinking

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

Boys, Family, Grow, Growing Up, Poor, Poverty

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.

Fruit, Share, Fattening, Particularly, Delicious

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan. ' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

Context, Friday, Horror, Like, Pakistan

My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I was curious about they'd get for me from the library. Books were a kind of a resistance to reality. I liked to imagine worlds that were different. I still do.

Book, Books, Dad, Liked, Reading, Worlds

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

Actors, Concerned, Pakistan, Primarily, World

Living in a place like Pakistan, very often you meet people who are migrating abroad. And sometimes you'll ask their parents, you know - you didn't try to stop them? Like, why didn't you say, don't go - I'll miss you? Stay with me. And, you know, people say, well, it's best for them. They have to go. And parents, you know, take on that sadness because they know it's better for their children if they leave.

Children, Living, People, Sadness, Take

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

Home, Know, Knows, Language

The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

Black And White, Dark, Good, Rocks, Trembled, Turned

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