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It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
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City of Sarajevo
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I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.
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Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
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I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.
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An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.
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One builds one's life in consistency one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.
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People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
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Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.
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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction there's no word describing that.
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If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.
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What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.
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The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.
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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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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
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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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