Pakistani - Writer | July 23, 1971 -
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.
Mohsin Hamid
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Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
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When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.
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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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How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
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I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
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I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.
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In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.
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I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.
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My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.
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I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally.
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I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.
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