I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a… — Aleksandar Hemon Billionaire Copy Share Image
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon Beauty Copy Share Image
It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working… — Aleksandar Hemon Mind Copy Share Image
“I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing -- America was nothing if not good intentions.” — Aleksandar Hemon Good intentions Copy Share Image
You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your… — Aleksandar Hemon Brain Copy Share Image
“It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth--reality is… — Aleksandar Hemon Truth Copy Share Image
I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The cafeteria in the Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world—and forever it shall be—with its grim… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started… — Aleksandar Hemon Books Copy Share Image
“Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I… — Aleksandar Hemon Culture Copy Share Image
“While customarily splling coffee grounds all over the counter, I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was… — Aleksandar Hemon Sadness Copy Share Image
There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters… — Aleksandar Hemon Brave Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's… — Aleksandar Hemon About yourself Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something… — Aleksandar Hemon Capitalism Copy Share Image
I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and… — Aleksandar Hemon Art Copy Share Image
The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for… — Aleksandar Hemon Art Copy Share Image
I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in… — Aleksandar Hemon Books Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows… — Aleksandar Hemon Creativity Copy Share Image
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs… — Aleksandar Hemon Belief Copy Share Image
I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. — Aleksandar Hemon Hollywood Copy Share Image
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming… — Aleksandar Hemon Books Copy Share Image
There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to… — Aleksandar Hemon Argument 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
Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you… — Aleksandar Hemon Belief Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
