To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways… — Aleksandar Hemon Book Copy Share Image
“Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.” — Aleksandar Hemon Absence Copy Share Image
“All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what… — Aleksandar Hemon Life Copy Share Image
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to.… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching… — Aleksandar Hemon Bliss 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
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
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
“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
For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an… — Aleksandar Hemon Books 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
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
“Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings,… — Aleksandar Hemon Honor Copy Share Image
I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share… — Aleksandar Hemon Confounded Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a… — Aleksandar Hemon Book Copy Share Image
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans. — Aleksandar Hemon Abstraction 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 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 have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I… — 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
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“We stood there, squeezing each other's hands as though trying to press through the flesh to the bones and then beyond. She… — Aleksandar Hemon Affection Copy Share Image
I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating… — Aleksandar Hemon Anger Copy Share Image
“I think it is about life. I think there is always more life than death. Those who lived are always alive for… — Aleksandar Hemon Death Copy Share Image
“Učili su još pjesama za kasne sate tuluma; sve se dublje uživljavajući u osjećaj koji Bosanci nazvaju SEVDAH- osjećaj ugodnog bola u… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that… — Aleksandar Hemon Chicago Copy Share Image
