If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little … - Mohsin Hamid

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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Mohsin Hamid

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

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Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

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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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I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

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I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.

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Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.

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