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

- Mohsin Hamid
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It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.

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.

It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.

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.

I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.

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.

I personally tend to believe that there is a right to migration, the same way there's a right to love whom you like and to believe what you believe and to say what you want to say.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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