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“Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.”
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“As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.”
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“Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.”
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“What is important is the future. After 40 years of creation, I continue. This is what I love.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.”
Source : FaceBook post by Silas House from Feb 07, 2013 
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“Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas.”
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“Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.”
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“I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.”
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“That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.”
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“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”
Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
