I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I… — 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
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility. — 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
There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters… — 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
It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living. — 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
There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's… — 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
