Best Aleksandar Hemon Quotes
- I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. Fiction
- I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. Calls
- I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want… Knew
- In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. Bosnian
- I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction. Brain
- When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means… Bosnia
- God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I… Ask
- For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have… Access
- I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and… 80s
- I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. Any
- New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. Complete
- To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. Book
- I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity. Allows
- When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice… Already Published
- I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home… Chicago
- I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces… English
- Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend. All
- All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world… All
- I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it?… Bolt
- My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness. Car
- We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a… Cartoon
- Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. Funny
- The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. Always Greater
- I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete.… Able
- Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings. Belief