When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what… — Aleksandar Hemon Life 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
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so… — 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… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to… — Aleksandar Hemon Argument Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you what the problem is, Brik. Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Učili su još pjesama za kasne sate tuluma; sve se dublje uživljavajući u osjećaj koji Bosanci nazvaju SEVDAH- osjećaj ugodnog bola u… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that… — Aleksandar Hemon Chicago Copy Share Image
You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“We stood there, squeezing each other's hands as though trying to press through the flesh to the bones and then beyond. She… — Aleksandar Hemon Affection Copy Share Image
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“I think it is about life. I think there is always more life than death. Those who lived are always alive for… — Aleksandar Hemon Death Copy Share Image
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming… — Aleksandar Hemon Books Copy Share Image
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. — Aleksandar Hemon Hollywood Copy Share Image
I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
“I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a… — Aleksandar Hemon Photography Copy Share Image
“I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and… — Aleksandar Hemon America Copy Share Image
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share… — Aleksandar Hemon Confounded Copy Share Image
“Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings,… — Aleksandar Hemon Honor Copy Share Image
It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching… — Aleksandar Hemon Bliss Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a… — Aleksandar Hemon Book 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 Abstraction Copy Share Image
“It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth--reality is… — Aleksandar Hemon Truth 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 don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your… — Aleksandar Hemon Brain Copy Share Image
“I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing -- America was nothing if not good intentions.” — Aleksandar Hemon Good intentions Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something… — Aleksandar Hemon Capitalism Copy Share Image
“It took me about fifteen minutes to get to the hospital, through traffic that existed in an entirely different space-time.” — Aleksandar Hemon Hospital Copy Share Image
