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
In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than… — 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
The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n'… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm… — 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
People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories. — 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
The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history.… — 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
Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate… — 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
