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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

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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City of Sarajevo
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I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
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It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.
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Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, What do you do when you're not writing? And I said, I idle.
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We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.
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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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I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.
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Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I had an epiphany: I was a loser.
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Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
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There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.
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I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
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For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.
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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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I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
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