The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position. — Aleksandar Hemon 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
I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
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 had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these… — Aleksandar Hemon 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 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 Copy Share Image
If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters. — 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 that it… — 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 demands of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 in the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
