People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories. — Aleksandar Hemon Industry Copy Share Image
If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war.” — Aleksandar Hemon Detectives Copy Share Image
“If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.” — Aleksandar Hemon Time Copy Share Image
As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“She was beautiful; my breath was taken; we were still lonely; she said yes.” — Aleksandar Hemon Beauty Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth… — Aleksandar Hemon Life Copy Share Image
What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism. — Aleksandar Hemon America Copy Share Image
Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving… — Aleksandar Hemon Art Copy Share Image
“While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love… — Aleksandar Hemon Common vision Copy Share Image
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point… — 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
I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Boss Copy Share Image
“What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life? The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world.… — Aleksandar Hemon Life Copy Share Image
“What you see is what you see, but that is never everything. Sarajavo is Sarajevo whatever you see or don't see. America… — Aleksandar Hemon America 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… — Aleksandar Hemon Advantage Copy Share Image
Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history.… — Aleksandar Hemon Art 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
“But the moment you point at a difference, you enter, regardless of age, an already existing system of differences, a network of… — Aleksandar Hemon Identity 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
“And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist… — Aleksandar Hemon Age Copy Share Image
“There’s a psychological mechanism, I’ve come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For… — Aleksandar Hemon Death Copy Share Image
“Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is… — Aleksandar Hemon Fiction Copy Share Image
“Mujo is a refugee in Germany, has no job, but has a lot of time, so he goes to a Turkish bath.… — Aleksandar Hemon Cell phone Copy Share Image
“This took place just before the war, in the relatively rosz times, when we were euphoric with the imminence of disaster –… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a joke, Rora said. Mujo wakes up one day, after a long night of drinking, and asks himself… — Aleksandar Hemon Books 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 don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. — Aleksandar Hemon Dilettante Copy Share Image
Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent. — Aleksandar Hemon Domain Copy Share Image
“If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.” — Aleksandar Hemon City Copy Share Image
