“We are never as beautiful as now. The crushing sadness of hotel rooms; the gelid lights and clean notepads; the blank walls… — Aleksandar Hemon Beauty Copy Share Image
“It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming… — Aleksandar Hemon Cataclysm Copy Share Image
Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving… — Aleksandar Hemon Art Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth… — Aleksandar Hemon Life Copy Share Image
What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism. — Aleksandar Hemon America Copy Share Image
The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from… — Aleksandar Hemon Civilization Copy Share Image
“While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love… — Aleksandar Hemon Common vision Copy Share Image
God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and… — Aleksandar Hemon Effort Copy Share Image
I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at… — Aleksandar Hemon Brilliant Copy Share Image
“You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have… — Aleksandar Hemon Abstraction Copy Share Image
We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I… — Aleksandar Hemon America Copy Share Image
Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in… — Aleksandar Hemon America Copy Share Image
“Ipak, nerijetko ga je morila sumnja koja opsjeda srce mnogoga umjetnika: da je njegova umjetnost, iskopana iz najtamnijih dubina njegove duše, čisto… — Aleksandar Hemon Balkan Copy Share Image
I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about… — Aleksandar Hemon Care Copy Share Image
“One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some… — Aleksandar Hemon Buddhism Copy Share Image
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Character Copy Share Image
Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend. — Aleksandar Hemon Fantasies Copy Share Image
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write. — Aleksandar Hemon Art Copy Share Image
I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Assumption Copy Share Image
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a… — Aleksandar Hemon Book Copy Share Image
I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my… — Aleksandar Hemon Confession Copy Share Image
Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain." — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Boss Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could… — Aleksandar Hemon Country Copy Share Image
We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do… — Aleksandar Hemon Consciousness Copy Share Image
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist,… — Aleksandar Hemon Books Copy Share Image
“It took me about fifteen minutes to get to the hospital, through traffic that existed in an entirely different space-time.” — Aleksandar Hemon Hospital Copy Share Image
![“There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.” quote by Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9fc/aleksandar-hemon-1490_book_there-is-a-logic-to-my-reading-but-i-can_423313.jpg)
