Mohsin Hamid: "Saya merasa terlibat dengan orang-orang muda di Pakista...

"Saya merasa terlibat dengan orang-orang muda di Pakistan. Namun demikian, masih minoritas kecil yang membaca novel, fiksi sastra. Tapi itu belum tentu minoritas kecil dari elit kaya di kota Lahore. Itu sering dan saya sering bertemu di festival sastra, siswa yang naik bus 12 jam dari kota yang sangat kecil hanya untuk mendengar beberapa penulis favorit mereka datang dan berbicara."

--- Mohsin Hamid

Versi Bahasa Inggris

I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.