Fiction Quotes 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…

— Aleksandar Hemon

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

— Aleksandar Hemon

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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,…

— 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…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon