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Aleksandar Hemon is a Serbian-American writer known for his unique literary style and profound humanistic concerns. His works focus on themes of immigration, identity, and individual experience, and have won him a wide readership.

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“I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.”

Writing Believe I Can Inspiration Don't Believe

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“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.”

Knows Giving Art I Can Giving Up Difficulty Notion Despite Nobility

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”

Thinking Looks I Can Used Used To Be Old Picture

Book:The Lazarus Project

Source: The Lazarus Project

“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.”

I Can Book Reading Logic Call Me Shelves

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.”

Writing I Can Space Pieces Particular Wall Return Providing

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.”

I Can America Choices Agency

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.”

Writing Long I Can Situation Reader Retreat

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

About the Author

Born: September 9, 1964
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 176

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