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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.
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 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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I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
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All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
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The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.
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Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.
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To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
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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.
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Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
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I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.
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To write has to be related to a drive inside.
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I had an epiphany: I was a loser.
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