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title: "4 Bosnia Quotes By Aleksandar Hemon"
description: "4 Bosnia quotes by Aleksandar Hemon. Plus more from Aleksandar Hemon and more Bosnia sayings from other authors."
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> [When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/when-i-found-myself-in-the-u-s-and-the-war-was-at-full-swing-in/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c78/aleksandar-hemon-1490_bosnia_when-i-found-myself-in-the-u-s-and-the-w_1599566.jpg)

> [When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/when-i-came-to-america-i-was-already-a-writer-already-published-in/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/003/aleksandar-hemon-1490_america_when-i-came-to-america-i-was-already-a-w_1873792.jpg)

> [The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/the-funny-thing-is-that-in-bosnia-there-are-no-words-that-are/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/044/aleksandar-hemon-1490_artificial_the-funny-thing-is-that-in-bosnia-there_3206768.jpg)

> [For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/for-people-who-are-displaced-you-can-reconstruct-the-story-of-your/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

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## Other authors on Bosnia

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-christopher-hitchens-23938.jpg) Christopher Hitchens 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bosnia/christopher-hitchens/)

## More by Aleksandar Hemon

> [Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/even-if-you-tried-to-extinguish-your-personality-what-is-left-in-the/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/to-me-there-s-no-difference-between-a-book-of-stories-and-a-novel/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/lord-why-did-you-leave-me-in-these-woods/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/i-want-to-change-something-i-want-to-stop-the-germs-from-attacking-my/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/clich-activates-the-comfortable-mental-laziness-we-sort-of-revert-to/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/the-writer-does-not-dare-dream-of-giving-the-best-of-his/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/i-know-a-lot-of-people-in-the-city-at-all-levels-horizontally-and/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/what-fiction-and-art-can-do-particularly-narrative-art-is-construct/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/i-read-everything-i-could-find-in-english-twain-henry-james-hemingway/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/it-was-always-clear-to-me-that-i-would-have-to-earn-my-readers-some-i/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/i-never-thought-of-myself-as-an-outsider-because-outside-of-what-you/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/there-are-studies-that-have-shown-that-we-make-decisions-ethical-and/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/i-long-for-not-a-writer-s-retreat-i-can-write-in-any-situation-but-a/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/i-much-preferred-winning-to-thinking-and-i-didn-t-like-losing-at-all/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

> [Memory narrativises itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/memory-narrativises-itself/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

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