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In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Living
Stories
Real
Way
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Life
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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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I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
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When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
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We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.
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I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.
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I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
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People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
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Outsider means I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain.
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I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.
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As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.
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I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
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You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.
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Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.
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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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My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend a lot of time in Europe, often meeting writers, and I'm sick of apologizing for the embarrassing shortage of translations in America.
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There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.
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I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
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I had an epiphany: I was a loser.
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I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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