Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.
Aleksandar Hemon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
People
City
Busboys
Writer
Horizontally
Levels
Dined
Cities
Vertically
Also
Billionaires
Persons
Billionaire
Person
Soccer
Play
Privilege
More quotes by Aleksandar Hemon
People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
Aleksandar Hemon
For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).
Aleksandar Hemon
Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.
Aleksandar Hemon
To write has to be related to a drive inside.
Aleksandar Hemon
The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
Aleksandar Hemon
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
Aleksandar Hemon
I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.
Aleksandar Hemon
I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.
Aleksandar Hemon
If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.
Aleksandar Hemon
My skin was the border between the world and me.
Aleksandar Hemon
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
Aleksandar Hemon
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.
Aleksandar Hemon
We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.
Aleksandar Hemon
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.
Aleksandar Hemon
We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
Aleksandar Hemon
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
Aleksandar Hemon
Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
Aleksandar Hemon
I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.
Aleksandar Hemon
Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.
Aleksandar Hemon
I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.
Aleksandar Hemon