I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a… — 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
Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that… — 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
I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to… — 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
Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the… — 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
