It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in… — 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
