Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph. — Josip Novakovich Artist Copy Share Image
“Love of ruins for an architect, he claimed, was quite natural, at least after a long career.” — Josip Novakovich Architect Copy Share Image
“It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I’d never seen anybody in a library pick up… — Josip Novakovich Writer Copy Share Image
“But that did not make Mirko happy - the world was melting away; what was a grade compared with the world? He… — Josip Novakovich Flower Copy Share Image
“Quite a few people are here to study the European Union. Perhaps there is such a thing as the European Union.” — Josip Novakovich Europe Copy Share Image
“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...” — Josip Novakovich Inspiration Copy Share Image
Something in the movement of fingers on the keyboard enhances thought. Fingers pull your thoughts forward. Fingers are in some way an… — Josip Novakovich Association Copy Share Image
“I was caught between the crossfire of the atheist school and a Baptist church and family. Both had a prescription for how… — Josip Novakovich Atheist Copy Share Image
“He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind… — Josip Novakovich Dissolution Copy Share Image
“Quite a few people are here to study the European Union. Perhaps there is such a thing as the European Union. When… — Josip Novakovich Big news Copy Share Image
“I was taught not to distinguish between patriotism and nationalism; the word patriotism was an attempt to present the same ugly nationalist… — Josip Novakovich Nationalism Copy Share Image
“This was his third attempt to escape Yugoslavia, for which he was rewarded by two years of treatment in the insane asylum.… — Josip Novakovich Asylum Copy Share Image
“Enemies keep you alert, competitive, and friendships lull you into mediocrity, and through peer pressure, keep you back and down, and eventually,… — Josip Novakovich Betraying friends Copy Share Image
“Late at night, my friend Boris and I stood by the tracks and the train passed with orange lights in all its… — Josip Novakovich Fitness Copy Share Image
“When he moved to another end of our town, our friendship diminished, and I made other friends. I moved to the States,… — Josip Novakovich Friendship Copy Share Image
“Diogenes heard a young man playing on the lute. The otherwise stoical philosopher seemed to be touched by the emotional music and… — Josip Novakovich Young man Copy Share Image
“Strangely enough, I am beginning to feel like an exile when I go to a polling station in PA and people hold… — Josip Novakovich Nazi germany Copy Share Image
“The destruction of Dresden was an overkill. It was done in February, 1945, when it was clear that Germany would lose the… — Josip Novakovich Destruction Copy Share Image
“Describing men, of course, I run into the same problems—aquiline nose, chiseled features, bullish neck, leonine hair, steely gaze, bronze tan—but somehow… — Josip Novakovich Describing Copy Share Image
“MY FATHER TRIED IT. In Daruvar, Croatia, he bought a piano, sat my oldest brother at it, and hired a teacher. Whenever… — Josip Novakovich Parenting Copy Share Image
“How to describe the woman? Silky hair, velvety lips. No, it won’t do, I’m using fabrics, constructing a doll. How about coppery… — Josip Novakovich Precious stones Copy Share Image
“In the train, I read a special issue of Der Spiegel, about the Germans who had been driven out in ethnic cleansing… — Josip Novakovich Fitness Copy Share Image
“Serbs don’t forget, as the graffito goes, the atrocities that the Croatian ustashas committed against them in World War II. That was… — Josip Novakovich Memory Copy Share Image
“I took a walk from Friedrichstrasse Station. That appears to be the train station from which I left in 1983 and in… — Josip Novakovich Computers Copy Share Image
Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life. — Josip Novakovich Communication Copy Share Image
“Why do we have two ears and one mouth? In order to talk half as much as we listen.” — Josip Novakovich Ears Copy Share Image
You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing... — Josip Novakovich Be inspired Copy Share Image
“My friend gave me an opportunity to be bad, that is, free.” — Josip Novakovich Free Copy Share Image
"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention. — Josip Novakovich Achieve Copy Share Image
“When fatness was an exception, it was part of the canon of beauty. Now that leanness is an exception, its symptoms are… — Josip Novakovich Beauty Copy Share Image
“The basis for the feminist movement was a striving for equality between the sexes. Women can write erotica; therefore, men can write… — Josip Novakovich Feminism Copy Share Image
Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns… — Josip Novakovich Entertaining Copy Share Image
“I remember, in former East Berlin, how startling it was to see the wall cut some streets. The street would go straight… — Josip Novakovich Another world Copy Share Image
“They had talked about how to lose weight. One was telling another that she ought to eat nothing but protein— meats, tofu,… — Josip Novakovich Food Copy Share Image
“Countries change, of course, and it is still the same country, in a way, resembling a McCarthy America, except that McCarthy’s America… — Josip Novakovich America Debt Copy Share Image
“When I talk on the phone with my brother Ivo, who is a theology instructor at Baylor, he invariably wants to talk… — Josip Novakovich Older brother Copy Share Image
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of… — Josip Novakovich Civilization Copy Share Image
“When I talk on the phone with my brother Ivo, who is a theology instructor at Baylor, he invariably wants to talk… — Josip Novakovich Credit card Copy Share Image
