I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That… — 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
I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to… — 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
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
