“The liar looks up toward it, hoping against hope that the voices in his head have told him the truth. ” — Aleksandar Hemon Hope Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. — Aleksandar Hemon Dilettante Copy Share Image
Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent. — Aleksandar Hemon Domain Copy Share Image
I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders. — Aleksandar Hemon Congress Copy Share Image
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a… — Aleksandar Hemon Photography Copy Share Image
“I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and… — Aleksandar Hemon America Copy Share Image
I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world… — Aleksandar Hemon Book Copy Share Image
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you what the problem is, Brik. Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if… — Aleksandar Hemon Access Copy Share Image
The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n'… — Aleksandar Hemon Bounds Copy Share Image
In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and… — Aleksandar Hemon Chance Copy Share Image
I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely… — Aleksandar Hemon Character Copy Share Image
“Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place,… — Aleksandar Hemon Displacement Copy Share Image
“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was… — Aleksandar Hemon Cliches Copy Share Image
“Much like Ella, I'd found myself with an excess of words, the wealth of which far exceeded the pathetic limits of my… — Aleksandar Hemon Narrative Copy Share Image
“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in… — Aleksandar Hemon Language Copy Share Image
“There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For… — Aleksandar Hemon Death Copy Share Image
There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as… — Aleksandar Hemon Books Copy Share Image
“...while hiding in plain sight in Belgrade, undercover as a New Age mountebank, Karadžić frequented a bar called Mad House - Luda… — Aleksandar Hemon Hiding in plain sight Copy Share Image
“Hi," she said, in a whispery voice, and nodded as if to confirm that she really meant it.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it.” — Aleksandar Hemon Apocalypse Copy Share Image
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all. — Aleksandar Hemon Football Copy Share Image
“Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.” — Aleksandar Hemon Argument Copy Share Image
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes. — Aleksandar Hemon About yourself Copy Share Image
