I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you… — 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
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
