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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Nonfiction
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Bosnian
Bosnians

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Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.
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I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
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It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.
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It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.
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Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.
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There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.
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I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
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There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the stories of our lives. In other words, if we imagine ourselves brave or crazy or open, we're more likely to make decisions in a given situation based on how we imagine ourselves, whatever the facts may be.
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Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.
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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
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I had an epiphany: I was a loser.
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I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
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Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
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The balls do not make a writer.
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
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