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Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon

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. more

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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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“New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.”

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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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“I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.”

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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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“I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.”

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“I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.”

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“I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.”

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“I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.”

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“I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.”

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