“My dreams were but a means of forgetting, they were the branches tied to the galloping horses of our days, the emptying… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“What you see is what you see, but that is never everything. Sarajavo is Sarajevo whatever you see or don't see. America… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“She could slip out of her shoes and leave them right here, stuck in the muck, and then get rid of her… — Aleksandar Hemon 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 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
