“I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America,…” — Mohsin Hamid

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

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.

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

I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.