978 quotes by pakistani authors for you to enjoy

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian. Mohsin Hamid

Strength World Made Arm Sort Affairs America Often Break Inadvertently Toes World Affairs

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there. Mohsin Hamid

You Yourself Universe Other Gaze Recognise Out Inside See Comprehend Look Terms Very Reflects Interesting Notions Present Sufi Two

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him. Mohsin Hamid

People Moore Seems Rather Winning He Unsuccessful Over Him Michael Artist Want Which Disparage Who Agree

I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and try to cling to one aspect of that identity to describe what they are: American, Republican, Muslim. These are really incomplete. Mohsin Hamid

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together. Mohsin Hamid

Nature Together Strong Political Think Intertwined Am Personal Move Believer

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book. Mohsin Hamid

Book Painting Miniature Rather Than Create

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks. Mohsin Hamid

Time History Together People First Nation National Finally Television Given Open Leaders Ideas First Time Truly Discovering Debated Forum Pakistan Assessed Million Million People Thinks

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the U.S. as a geopolitical player. Mohsin Hamid

Negative Despite Extremely Evident Fondness Individuals Combination Most Geopolitical Impression American Products Views Reasons Player

Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago - they find a way to just carry on. But you're stressed out. You're worried, you know. Mohsin Hamid

You People Live Worried Way Out Cities Carry Find New Know Years Years Ago Did Just New Yorkers Who Violent Stressed

Novel writing is solitary work. Mohsin Hamid

Work Writing Solitary Novel

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me. Mohsin Hamid

Literature helps us transcend ourselves. Mohsin Hamid

Ourselves Transcend Literature Us Helps

Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora. Mohsin Hamid

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is. Mohsin Hamid

Writing Point Writer Being

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

School Values Country Own Sense Active States Ensuring About Abroad More Onward Merely Also Policy Does Foreign Educate Foreign Policy Role American Done Public Themselves American Values Elementary Elementary School United United States Play Keeping Elite Need

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state. Mohsin Hamid

State Tyrannical Shadow Up Growing Lived Pakistan Growing Up

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. Mohsin Hamid

Death People Birth About Something Talk Different Speaking Novel Need

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. Mohsin Hamid

You Experience Yourself Writing Will Seen Before Else Entertained Something Something Else Take Feel Beyond Readers Because Trying Going Just Fiction Happen Literary Literary Fiction Them Themselves Show Help

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia. Mohsin Hamid

Strong Think South South Asia Social Asia Really

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. Mohsin Hamid

Life Day Religion Conversation Remember Engineer Own Liberal Entire About Entire Life Never Had Talked Pray Were Five Times Quiet Social Them Grandfather Worker Grandmother Grandparents Used Thing

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. Mohsin Hamid

Example Believe Other Representative Just Different Fiction Personally Each Pakistan

Quotes by pakistani authors