I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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
Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda. — 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 think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can… — 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
There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to… — 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
When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from… — 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
