Dealing with all the questions once the book is out and unchangeable, forces you to permanently give opinions about - in this case - sensible, challenging topics that you are basically only half the expert you would have to be… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper on which it forces you to think and rethink your original ideas, your topics, your research,… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“If only I were a magician who could make things possible. I'd give objects the gift of defiance: banisters, gramaphones, guns, the napes of… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
“The dead are lonelier than the living ever can be. They can't hear each other through coffins and the earth…When I die I'd like… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it. — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
“If I were a magician who could make things possible, then pictures could talk while we painted them. If I were a magaician who… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Europe is not becoming more unified - well, yes, on paper - but not as long as the criteria for so many things (import… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people. — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“If I were a magician who could make things possible, I'd have lemonade always tasting as it did on the evening Francesco explained how… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“The water can't turn back and choose another bed, just as promises now cannot be kept. No drowned man comes up again asking for… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
By trying to give an artistic approach through my book I stepped unwillingly into other fields. Like a dentist being asked about a throat… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death.” — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
